Word: assists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last that the U. S. Navy, even when operating near its home shores, is helpless without enough aircraft to support and protect surface ships. (Admiral Stark told a House committee: ". . . Surface units cannot of their own resources cover, protect and defend the areas of vital interest without the assist ance of strategically located coastal or island shore-based aircraft.") The most revealing thing about U. S. Defense was a little slip of the tongue by Major General Charles M. Wesson...
...assist at graduation activities, E. Langdon Burwell '41, of Eliot House, Donald I. Lowry '41, of Winthrop House, and Philip Thayer '41, of Winthrop House, were appointed head Junior Ushers by the Class Day Committee yesterday, Vinton Freedley, Jr. '40, chairman of the Committee announced...
Phillips Brooks House has announced that Thomas H. E. Quimby '40 has been appointed assistant to the Graduate Secretary for next year. He will assist in the general management of the House...
Feeling that Harvard should do its bit to alleviate the horrors of the European war, a group of students has volunteered to assist the American Red Cross in its nation-wide campaign for war relief. Today it will appeal to the generosity of Harvard men, hoping to raise a minimum of $1,200 as a modest contribution to the ten million dollar fund which the Red Cross needs to lend effective help. A supply ship has already been sent to France; but many more must cross the ocean to provide for only the barest needs of an estimated five million...
...President listened to Congress, to the people. The drumfire from Europe reached crescendo. He left the White House for an evening afloat on the Potomac. He played with his stamps, "did some think ing." He called in the civilians and officers who assist him in running the Navy and Army: Secretaries Edison (due to go soon) and Woodring (long overdue to go); Assistant Secretary of War Johnson (whose brash, abrasive voice crying in the wilderness for men & arms last year was too loud for his own, the Army's and the country's comfort); Chief of Naval Operations...