Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housing problem. Though long overdue, any program must be long range and well organized. All public measures must aim primarily at stimulating the private builder, for only he can supply the largest proportion of needed homes. Federal aid should provide for the income groups which he cannot help, partly because of inflated building costs. There must be Federal coordination from the top to aid and advise local groups, to plan better cities, and to prevent destruction of present facilities even for the purpose of improving them. No Utopia is in sight, but the 81st Congress, when it assembles on January...
...varsity hockey squad will attempt to retaliate last week's loss to Brown tonight at Providence, but they won't have Tom Moseley around to help. The fast left wing will be spending the evening in Stillman nursing a case of chickenpox while his teammates besport themselves on the Rhode Island Auditorium ice, and the Crimson, still looking for a second win, will be working without the usual offensive punch of the second line...
...rest of the week won't be as easy for Jack Barnaby's team. Today they travel to Providence to take on a strong Agwam Hunt Club team in a Metropolitan League game. While the result won't affect their intercollegiate standings, it will help them get in shape for their toughest match of the season at Williams next Saturday...
...views on China, which had been given in confidence to reporters in a Statler hotel room. (A Pearson legman had bragged in advance that he would find out what Marshall said.) To some extent Pearson is thus endangering the whole system of off-the-record conferences that help newsmen interpret the news. But Pearson argues, with considerable cogency, that most of the information should not be off the record in the first place...
...first press conference Bennett said he did not feel at all "squeezed" by big business. He cagily avoided committing himself on prices, wage increases and labor unions. But he let it be known that he gets along with his help. Said he: "The man who sweeps out the plant still calls me Wallace...