Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through eight grades in a year. He joined the Canadian Royal Fusiliers, saw service in the Near East, returned to the U. S. to study at the University of Pennsylvania, become an Episcopal minister. A radical, David Colony was assigned to teach Latin at swank Episcopal Academy and assist in a church at Rosemont, both on the Main Line and both cool to his notions. Transferred to more congenial, lower-class parishes in Philadelphia suburbs. Rector Colony established a barter system for the unemployed, a "school of the poor for the poor" which was to be supported by penny contributions...
Last week, therefore, he was delighted to have Mr. H. H. Kung, Finance Minister of China, come into his office and express China's longing to have a little golden egg of her own. Such an egg Mr. Kung figured would assist China to stabilize her once all-silver currency in relation to the currencies of the great nations which adhere to gold as a medium for settling balances. Would Mr. Morgenthau take some of China's silver in exchange for gold? Mr. Morgenthau was delighted for he is supposed to buy silver under the Silver Purchase...
Forty-eight outstanding Juniors have been selected to assist in the conduct of today's Senior Spread and other class activities of the week...
...executing the Court's second tactical maneuver Justice Van Devanter was credited last week with an assist from Senators Borah and Wheeler. For a long time Senator Borah and the Justice have been neighbors. Forty-six years ago when young Lawyer Borah went to Idaho, young Lawyer Van Devanter, just across the border in Wyoming, had already retired as chief justice of the State supreme court and was about to become chairman of the Republican State Committee. Today, Borah occupies apartment 77 at No. 2101 Connecticut Avenue and Oldster Van Devanter occupies apartment 47, three floors below. When they...
...Tudor house, had a nice nestegg in a London bank, stood in well with his party's national committee, had built up good-will by planting the right people in every bureau and department in the Capital. A widower for many years, he let friendly rich widows assist with the social side of his career. At home he was pampered by his beautiful 27-year-old daughter Darnell, who traveled with the "sad young men in the foreign service—touched a little by reading Proust," slept with a handsome swimming instructor who "smelt like a spaniel that...