Word: assistances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulties have originated in large degree from [foreign] sources, any effort to bring about our own recuperation has dictated the necessity of co-operation by us with other nations to restore world confidence. . . . The difficulties between China and Japan have given us great concern. ... It is our purpose to assist in finding solutions...
...since the result must also depend upon the distribution of the cards, the skill of the players. Both Culbertson and Lenz will get a great deal of advertising, and all bridge teachers will profit by having two systems to teach their pupils. Public interest in the match may also assist contract to withstand the onslaught of back: gammon as a leading indoor sport...
Chinese students at Harvard are to assist organizations all over the country in raising money for 2000 airplanes some of which will be shipped to China immediately, and others used for training purposes by the Chinese National Defense League, it was learned recently from C. C. Liang 3G, secretary of the Chinese Students club here. "If we can drop a bomb on Tokio, our aim will be accomplished, for the houses in Japan are made of wood and would easily catch fire...
...plans for defense, which originated at the League headquarters in San Francisco last week, include a nation-wide appeal to Chinese students in the universities to learn how to fly immediately, and to Chinese who already have pilots' licenses to assist in teaching their countrymen...
Justification for this drastic action was seen in the fact that RKO faces a receivership unless it gets cash, that a receivership would probably wipe out the value of the common stock. No public offering of securities could be made at this time; banks have been unwilling to assist. Radio Corp., which controls RKO, has agreed to buy any unsubscribed debentures on the same terms at which they were offered. Immediate cash needs of RKO are $1,000,000 during November, $3,000,000 by Jan. 1, $3,000,000 by July 1,1932. During 1929 the company made...