Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THEM MATERIAL AND FINANCIAL AID, WHICH HAS SAVED GREECE, AND FOR WHICH ITS PEOPLE ARE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL...
Greek government troops, with U.S. help, have lately made progress against the Communist rebels. Although Tito has cut down on his aid, Soviet satellites Bulgaria and Albania continue to train and equip the Greek Reds. On both sides of the Iron Curtain the struggle for Greece is watched intently. Failure to clean out the Communist bands will be taken as evidence that the anti-Communist world has no effective answer to Communist rebellion...
...rose garden of the White House last week a delegation of Greeks, thankful for U.S. aid to their country, came bearing gifts-an ancient urn, a native rug inscribed to XAPPT Z. TPOTMAN. The President was also in a mood of goodwill and generosity. He was busy last week bestowing little presidential favors on the Congress, in his campaign to save the Fair Deal. Many a Congressman was surprised and flattered to find the President of the United States on the telephone, calling for just a friendly chat...
...Three years ago I made a speech at Fulton . . . Many people here and in my own country were startled and even shocked by what I said . . . Today there is a very different climate of opinion . . . We have the famous Marshall aid, the new unity in Western Europe, and now the Atlantic pact. . . No one could have brought about these immense changes . .. . but for the astounding policy of the Russian Soviet government. We may well ask, 'Why have they deliberately acted for three long years so as to unite the free world against them...
Ruppel moved to Crowell-Collier's as assistant to Board Chairman Tom Beck, then joined the Marines. After the war, Hearst hired him, sent him back to Chicago as $40,000-a-year executive editor of the Her aid-American. But Ruppel's slam-bang civic cleanup campaign (DIRTY SHIRT TOWN) backfired, and Hearst bought up his contract...