Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frankfurt, a German girl discussed Stalin's peaceful hints. Said she wistfully: "Every time the Russians talk like that my heart jumps with hope ... I know, I know. But I can't help it if the Russians know the way my heart works." The point was that she knew better than what her heart told her. Except for the willfully blind and the incurably credulous, few of the world's people could any longer believe in what the Russians promised, any more than they could believe in dry water or wooden iron...
This week a U.S. lawyer, hired by their relatives, prepared an appeal to the Immigration Service. He pleaded that it was political persecution to send them back to Poland or Rumania, or back to Cuba to starve. However their case was decided, they would get no help from a strict reading of the U.S.'s muddled immigration laws. There was no direct provision in the statutes for Woloski or the Hersjus and thousands like them...
When young (37) G. Mennen Williams, onetime Princeton oarsman, surprised himself and his fellow Democrats by getting elected governor of Michigan last November, the C.I.O. hurriedly set out to help him run the state. Personable "Soapy" Williams, a New Dealing Grosse Pointe socialite (and an heir to the Mennen shaving-cream fortune) soon had a press secretary handpicked by U.A.W. Chieftain Walter Reuther, and a batch of other officers who had been blessed by the C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Considering that the C.I.O. (530,000 dues-paying members in Michigan) was the biggest group to support him in the campaign...
Borculo's villagers remembered, too, that after the wind died down, they had needed help badly, and help had come from many quarters. Now, they thought, it was their turn to help. Around a big potbellied stove in Harry Tijdink's tavern, an "Aid Warren Committee" promptly met to talk it over. "At least," said Drost, "we can show our sympathy in something more than words." "Right," agreed Farmer Jan Dave, as the campaign got under way. "Our help won't amount to much. But the nice thing is that it brings us all together...
Last fortnight Borculo's efforts in aid of Warren reached a grand climax in four separate variety shows. With admission fees and the oliebollen sale at intermissions, they grossed 2,200 gulden ($830), more than twice what the committee hoped for. Even that, Borculo admitted, would not help much financially, but already the villagers had a scheme in mind to spend it so that all the citizens of resurrected Warren might benefit. They would turn it to furniture for a public building. Cabinetmaker Groot Landeweer thought a sturdy oak chair carved with Borculo's coat of arms would...