Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President wrote to Julius H. Barnes and to Samuel Gompers urging that their respective organizations (the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Federation of Labor) appoint permanent committees to aid in placing disabled veterans in jobs. There are still about 70,000 disabled veterans receiving training from the Veterans' Bureau, of whom about 3,000 will be discharged as rehabilitated every month...
Osborne C. Wood, the 26-year-old younger son of General Wood, a lieutenant in the Army, an aid on his father's staff, admitted to Mr. Oulahan that he had made "$700,000 or $800,000" in tradings on the New York Stock Exchange...
Meanwhile, the Treaty was reported to be divided into four main parts: 1) France pledges to stand by the execution of the Treaties of St. Germain, Trianon and Neuilly. Czecho-Slovakia pledges aid in the execution of the Treaty of Versailles; 2) Mutual pledges of support in case of aggression; 3) Agreement by both nations to abide by the Covenant of the League of Nations; 4) Articles concerning an economic accord...
...American revolution was successful partly through aid from France sent ostensibly by a private company; the Cuban revolution was effected principally by American arms. No one questioned the right of sale of arms to foreign nations at the outbreak of the last war. These actions were taken upon the principle that a nation may sell arms to any purchaser it wishes so to aid...
...international recognition to a neighboring country where every second child seems born a revolutionist seems beyond question. The de la Huerta faction, as far as it knows its own purpose and reveals it, seems to aim at a lawless control by the military and privileged classes. While indiscriminate aid to a foreign power is admittedly unwise, aid to the Obregon government is judiciously extended. Criticism on openly pacifistic grounds is perhaps excusable, and as such could be pigeonholed out of the way of more important Congressional business...