Word: assists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While the Government ought not to undertake to control or direct, it should supplement and assist all efforts in this direction. The leaders of the co-operative movement, with the advice of the department of agriculture, have prepared what is believed to be an adequate bill embodying these principles, which will be presented to Congress for enactment. I propose actively and energetically to assist the farmers to promote their welfare through co-operative marketing...
...such need, to defray the expenses of any special investigation of a medical, geographical, historical, or scientific nature. It was further stated that such investigation should be "in the interests of, or for promoting the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race, or to assist in the discovery and perfecting of any special means of alleviating, or curing human disease, or to investigate and determine the value or importance of any discovery or invention, or any other special or temporary object of the nature above stated...
...high commanding them to go forth to larger things. Sometimes they see in such a call an honest opportunity for doing good on a greater scale; sometimes they go because they regard New York City as a sink of iniquity in whose cleansing their conscience impels them to assist. But recently, when Dr. Harris Elliott Kirk of Baltimore was asked to take charge of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, he refused. Such a rejection was obviously "news"; pressmen hurried to interview Dr. Kirk. In reply to their inquiries, he stated calmly that there were sown fields in Baltimore which...
...long list of ushers has been named to assist Mrs. Little in receiving. H. H. MacCubbin '27 has been named head usher, and will have H. H. Bachus '27, J. P. Crosby '28, D. C. Gates '26, Madison Sayles '27, L. K. Macnair '26, J. L. Carroll '26, C. H. Mowen '26, J. J. Maher '26, J. N. Land '26, H. C. Newman '26, L. A. Weissman '26, J. L. Beauchamp '28, J. N. Baldwin '28, R. P. Outerbridge '28, C. G. Raymond '28, J. O. Rosecrans '28, Richard Stebbins '28, A. H. Chase '27, and O. E. Shattuck...
...Swiss calm of Geneva. From Viscount Cecil of Chelwood came a crisp cheque for ?1000, with the suggestion that ?500 be allotted for tennis courts at the disposal of the League Secretariat, and that the rest be used to extend the Geneva Golf Club's course and to assist impecunious undersecretaries to join the club. Viscount Cecil added that the ?1000 represented part of the $25,000 peace prize awarded to him by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation two years...