Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Messrs. Acheson and Clayton could not sue Representative Shafer for libel. All they could do was deny the obviously ridiculous charges. Will Clayton pointed out that the Commodity Credit Corp. had itself made most foreign cotton shipments in the last fiscal year, had supervised the rest "to the substantial benefit of the Government and the American cotton farmer." Dean Acheson announced that he had given up his law practice the day he entered the State. Department, had since had "no connection with or financial interest in the business of the firm...
...Another benefit, accruing to members are bi-weekly lectures by members of the Fine Arts Department, and experts from the Institute of Modern Art in Boston. Robert L. Matters '50, president of the Association, claims that the lectures are for both artists and art appreciators...
...American system he helped to build. "We would be unduly ingenuous," he said, "if we were overimpressed by the propaganda which is reaching our shores in ever-increasing volume, and which is designed to persuade us that our accomplishments are negligible, that our system is intended merely to benefit the strong at the expense of the weak, and that our form of Western democracy is an outmoded relic of a decadent past...
...World- or Two? "[The] great sources of wealth on German soil should be exploited for the benefit of all the European community, including Germany, instead of being exploited by Germany against the European community, as was the case until now. . . . Is it fair and reasonable that you should be obliged to send us coal . . . when the Ruhr is at our gates? ... In order that a it is European necessary that . . community . be the Ruhr [be] constituted, <| placed under international authority...
...Association by ducking the most pressing contemporary problem in higher education, has done its members a rave disservice. Its refusal to state flatly that only Federal aid can enable the colleges to fulfill their task--education for all who can benefit by it--merely postpones the issue and delays its solution...