Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy of the Committee on Scholarships throughout the 12 year history of the "Nationals" has been to select outstanding graduates of secondary schools for these prizes, regardless of the financial capabilities of the scholar's family. Unquestionably the College has benefited greatly from this infusion of rich intellectual talent and leadership. At the same time it is vital to note that of these Scholars, some 20 percent were taken from families whose incomes were above $5000, and 40 percent from an income bracket over $4000. Since there is no questioning the Committee's sincerity in choosing the most promising candidates...
...high seas the 25 opera singers-some of them among Europe's best-sang a benefit for the children of dead British sailors, raised...
This week Scotto was still trying to raise money, but the singers had given up hope of doing any opera in the U.S. They were rehearsing a one-night benefit for themselves to pay their way home. Somebody had told them they could get passage cheap on a freight boat out of Baltimore...
...rate reductions in particular. The Committee for Reciprocal Information has been informed that "lowered import duties constitute a threat to American industry, agriculture, and defense," and Senator Butler, Republican of Nebraska, has revealed that the reciprocal pacts have been "a gigantic hoax on the American people . . . solely for the benefit of other nations." But the faithful of the high tariff flock have been unable to point out a specific case of lowered tariffs or reciprocal agreements adversely affecting American industry. They continue to cry wolf, blind to the lesson they should have learned 15 years ago--that wolves feed...
...Trade Agreements Act. With that Act Hull had attacked the economic nationalism of high tariffs-not only in the U.S. but in all countries. Hull did not advocate unrestricted free trade but trade free of "malignant restrictions''; he demanded reasonable tariffs reduced reciprocally for mutual benefit. This was the delicate flower which Under Secretary of State Will Clayton now cultivated...