Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, 72 and perky, national president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, testified that her organization represents "organized mother love" battling against the entrenched liquor czars. Further, said she, housewives are short of sugar because too much is being diverted to the breweries.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars were no less busy. V.F.W. Lobbyist Omar B. Ketchum advised against putting mustering-out pay too high. Said he: after all, its purpose is only to tide a man over until he gets a job. A further reason: it might block passage of a bonus...
In Argentina, the dominant "Colonels' Clique" clung to its typical Fascist state, apparently unworried by threats of a British-U.S. embargo against Argentine trade. Well-informed authorities in London and Latin America doubted that Britain would actually go very far on this road, suggested that her investments in...
The Oriental Club at Harvard, seeking to further understanding between Eastern and Western countries, will present a recital of Oriental music on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Harvard and Radcliffe students from China, India, Turkey, Russia, Egypt, and perhaps Afghanistan will take...
The Healesville platypus was born after Curator David Fleay, as an experiment, gave Jill some nesting material. She promptly carried it into her burrow, soon afterward holed up for six days. When Fleay ventured to open the burrow last week, he found a fat baby, about nine weeks old, that...