Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nineteenth of the world area. This means that while your national income per capita is approximately $1,117, the average income of almost two billion other people is only $30 per capita. A steady yearly increase in the present world income, more equitably distributed and diffused, would . . . assist in the consolidation of democracy and the prosperity of all countries...
...feature that is very popular with habitues is the large library of recorded poetry which may be heard over earphones on the two machines provided for that purpose, according to Miss Nora Cordingley, who takes time out from her duties as curator of Widener's Roosevelt Collection to assist John L. Sweeney, curator of the Poetry Room since...
...dictate or interfere with the policies of other countries. It does assume, however, that the world looks to the U.S. for more than material aid and military protection. The Institute's sponsors hope that their guests from abroad will spell out in concrete terms how the U.S. may assist in building a better world, and that the U.S. spokesmen will suggest practical, contemporary methods of realizing U.S. democratic principles in U.S. foreign relations...
...said, New Orleans' notorious Abraham L. (Abe) Shushan, ex-convict and onetime Huey Long henchman, agreed to write off a $3,000 loan to Bilbo in return for an assist on an $80,000 income-tax suit. In 1941, Terry recalled, Bilbo had accepted $1,500 to get an aged Natchez drug addict a special morphine prescription from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics...
...Bank, was not growing up to be such a credit to its founders. It was beginning to be regarded as almost a wayward child. There was still no taker for the $30,000-a-year job (tax free) which President Eugene Meyer resigned. And the Bank itself, with an assist from Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, bungled the announcement of another resignation. As a matter of courtesy, Vice President Harold D. Smith thought he ought to hand in his resignation, let the new president keep him or name a new vice president. But the bungling announcements did not mention that...