Word: assists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tobacco up 20%, the beer tax up 14%. It was against the law to ask for a raise in salary or to demand extra pay for overtime. Every able-bodied resident of a German city was required to help pile up sandbags and to assist in building air-raid cellars...
...staff of the Bureau is composed of sixty persons most of whom have both graduate study and teaching experience at Harvard. All are well acquainted with the work in the undergraduate courses and have been selected by the department as the most competent persons available to assist students in Harvard College...
...Senators and Representatives are now in their 40's and 50's and beyond the limits for military service. Logically we American Youths who are between the ages of 21 and 30 would make up the volume of American soldiers, and should, therefore, have the right to assist in voting ourselves into a war. Why can't we be represented in Washington by a separate "Youth Congress," one representative from each state with a maximum age limit of 30? Is it democratic to let the age 40 and 50 vote the death sentence...
Adolf to Neville & Edouard. Actual nub of the Hitler speech was an effort to undermine Allied morale by representing Poland as a Humpty Dumpty which just-cannot be put together again and by asking the Allies, who entered World War II avowedly to assist now crushed Poland, whether it is reasonable to fight on because they find Hitlerism intolerable...
...neutrality remained to Il Duce. In the military situation created by the West Wall-Maginot Line stalemate, a neutral Italy, blocking access to Germany via the Tyrolean passes, had tremendous nuisance value. It would force Britain & France to go clear around through the Dardanelles, Black Sea and Rumania to assist Poland and establish the Salonika front (see p. 22). It was nuisance so great that it might bring B. Mussolini a fancy price if he chose to sell...