Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans for Progress is at the liberal end of the splinter spectrum, aspires to election-year action and perennial idea production. It will assist individual candidates of whom it approves while generating programs it hopes to sell to the party as a whole. Its chairman is Charles P. Taft, brother of the late "Mr. Republican" and the most liberal of the Ohio Tafts...
...Assist from the Soviets. For a time it seemed that the gamble would pay off. The market soared, thanks to De Angelis' big buying and an assist from-of all people-the Communists. Russia was clamoring to buy U.S. wheat, and when reports hit Wall Street that the Soviets' sunflower crop had also failed, rumors flared that the Russians would soon be shopping for U.S. vegetable oil. In six weeks during the autumn of 1963, soybean oil climbed from 9.20 per Ib. to 10.30. But on Nov. 15 the market cracked-and so did Tino...
...done just this, despite the many trials involved in pulling together long-separate institutions. In 1956, he established the Harvard Medical Center, a corporation formed by the Harvard Medical School and seven of its teaching hospitals"... to improve and advance the knowledge, practice, and teaching of medicine...; to assist in the advancement of medical research and investigation and in the improvement of medical teaching facilities...." Berry, himself, is president of the corporation's Board of Trustees. Among the Center's participating hospitals are the Massachusetts General, Children's and Peter Bent Brigham--all world-famous. Yoking them into formal association...
...Orleans before she went to the American Hospital in Paris. After Europe and marriage, it was back to Tulane to the department of surgery under Dr. Alton Ochsner.* During the '30s, young Dr. DeBakey became an expert in blood transfusions and invented a roller pump to assist them. That pump, he thought wistfully, might some day be useful in some sort of heart-lung machine to sustain a patient during surgery. Twenty years later...
After the sermon and the sit-in, U.S. churches are now using economic pressure to assist the Negro in his struggle for social and economic justice. Both Catholic and Protestant bodies are trying to see that the millions of dollars they hand out daily to commercial firms go to companies with fair-employment hiring practices...