Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture caption on the smash hit, Mister Roberts, reads David Wayne, Henry Fonda, William Harrigan [TIME, March 1]. Rather believe the last one is Robert Keith, the ship's doctor. The ship's captain, William Harrigan, spends little time with his men, certainly had no time to help the rest prepare a homemade alcoholic concoction...
...Taft aimed a blow at the heart of ERP. He saw no need for any moral commitment to continue ERP for more than its first year. "If I vote for the bill it will be with the understanding that there is no such obligation. . . . They have agreed to our help-yes. Fine. They have not agreed so far as I know to anything to our advantage...
...complex modern society citizens need police to help them keep order; but in a healthy society the citizens, not the police, have the primary responsibility. A British M.P., Kenneth Pickthorn, expressed the principle in the 1930s, when a bill was placed before the House of Commons to give British policemen extraordinary powers in order to fight native fascists. "I think it was a governess, a butcher's boy and a curate," said Pickthorn, "who got in the way of a gunman after he committed a murder recently; and there was Mr. Fisk, the Battersea bricklayer, who seized a gunman...
...summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo, deep in the Alban Hills. Beneath his long hand on the light walnut desk lay the morning's mail, with all the envelopes personally addressed to the Pope still unopened. Many begging letters Pius XII marked with a gold pencil, so that help should be sent immediately. Then he came to a letter from an industrialist who complained of the excessively high commissions charged by the Vatican for personal loans of $450,000 and 90,000,000 lire; he mentioned interest rates as high as 45%. Incredulous, the Pope glanced at the clock which...
...side stand the regimes of the old; on the other the Communist bid to meet the pressing kind of desperation Europe knows today. Organized political forces advocating democratic socialism have repeatedly found themselves squeezed, outmaneuvered, so placed they cannot reach out for a mass following. No appreciable help has come to them from the United States. In the struggle between the Communist promise and conservatism, mass support has gone and will continue to go to the parties espousing Communism...