Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going a step beyond charity, the 12th century Spanish-Jewish philosopher, Maimonides, urged the well to do to "assist the reduced fellow by teaching him a trade or putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood." Queen Elizabeth I came to believe that care of the poor is not the duty of just the rich or the church but also of the state. "Paupers are everywhere!" she cried after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness...
...would be set up to inform the authorities, he promised. Later in the spring, when the Administrative Board ousted a freshman for giving and selling marijuana to his friends, the Health Services were involved only after the case went to the Police--and then only in an attempt to assist the victims medically...
...Aerospace retained a consulting psychologist to counsel employees and assist in management procedures. The psychologist drew up one outline for personnel interviewing that reminded interviewers to grunt "uh-huh" occasionally, instead of talking, in order to draw out applicants. He also advised Aerospace President Dr. Ivan A. Getting that his staff included an unusually large number of "insufficiently adequate personnel...
Eventually, the patient, persistent negotiating of U.S. Special Delegate Ellsworth Bunker paid off. He got a late-hour assist from President Johnson...
...Jefferson's wall, history created situations where the paths of church and state converged. During the 19th century, for example, the Government subsidized frontier preachers to help pacify-even as they tried to convert-warring Indian tribes. In the Reconstruction era, church agencies were given public grants to assist freed slaves. Moreover, the U.S. came to accept the right and duty of the churches to influence legislation when a moral issue was involved-happily, before the Civil War, in the case of Northern Protestants who fought for abolition, less so later when Prohibition was imposed on the nation largely...