Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confidential letters exchanged between naval officers studying at the War College. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur convoked a court of inquiry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Captain Hugo W. Osterhaus was suspected of '"leaking." Lobbyist Shearer went to the Pacific coast. too busy there with other naval affairs to help out of difficulty those who had given him his information...
...chief Rabbi at Jerusalem telegraphed to the chief Rabbi of the British Empire: PALESTINE JEWRY IN GREATEST DANGER RUSH HELP...
...colored graduate nurses exist to look after their sickness. Only one of the 365 has a bachelor of science degree. Their number is small because not one Southern college offers them training. They must travel north for education. That entails an expense which few Negresses can afford. Scholarships help them out. Belle Davis, judicial-minded executive secretary of the National Health Circle for Colored People, explained the southern lack of nurse training: "The neglect of health is not so much unfairness and prejudice of the white toward the Negro as it is a complete lack of interest. This condition exists...
Father of the idea is Frederick N. Sard, executive director of the Schubert Centennial (1928) and the Beethoven Centennial (1927). Touring Europe to enlist help. Organizer Sard broke the news last week in Vienna. He announced as a prominent cooperator Count di San Martino. president of the Augusteo Orchestra and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, who will head the European delegations. Another noble cooperator, the Marquis Tokugawa of Japan, will chairman a Far Eastern Committee. Music Patrons Otto Hermann Kahn and George Eastman will serve on the U. S. board. In conjunction with the festival a technical exposition...
...softness in her voice as she called her son: "Come closer. . . . Raise your head and look at me." Then, clenching her teeth, she struck the boy suddenly across the face and with sadistic greed in her black eyes, watched the red mark fade. Horrified, Gučret could not help admiring her vitality...