Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swift to send aid were the British, French and Italian governments, all of which despatched war vessels with supplies for the 10,000 Corinthians who are now homeless, shelterless. Swifter still came the succor of the American Near East Relief, which maintains agents and nurses permanently in Greece. Meanwhile rich Athenians contributed generously and rapidly to a relief fund established by Old Paul Koun-douriotis, the revered admiral who is President of Greece because he alone is trusted as a man of honor-much as Germans trust Old Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg...
...Manhattan, one Ralph Richards was accused of visiting illegal saloons, posing as a prohibition enforcement officer and extracting large bribes from the proprietors. When, after being twice arrested for this practice, he was held without bail, Ralph Richards made a proposal to law authorities. He would aid detectives to find the whereabouts of an alleged "gang" which had assisted him in his operations...
Besides the fact that the opposing pitching did little to restrain the scoring orgy, the playing of the Bowdoin nine afield did much to aid the Crimson cause Seven miscues, most of them costly, were marked up against the losers...
...specialists have been acquired by the Harvard Dramatic Club to aid in its production of the oriental drama "Hassan", and a broadcasting recital has been announced by the club for Wednesday evening...
...pure blooded Assyrian, who will teach the cast how to pronounce difficult Arabian names. The pronunciation of such words as "eyewallah", "istagfarrulah", "marshalla", and "saleikum" puzzled the play-producers and began to loom up as an unsurmountable obstacle, until the bio-linguist Boonisar was discovered. He came to the aid of the perplexed actors, and for the past week has been drilling the cast of "Hassan" it the intricacies of oriental speech...