Word: helpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find a surplus of guns and ammunition and a shortage of food and clothes. When that time rolls around, don't you think it would be a good idea for Mr. Roosevelt to call his congressmen in and say: "Boys, we've spent several billions trying to help the poor and downtrodden get on top where the big fellows are (or used to be) but it don't seem to be getting us any place. What do you think about turning this relief business around by voting a few billions and turn it over to business...
...censorship, trade unions, rights of foreign-born citizens. Doubters who lacked confidence in U. S. democratic institutions feared that action taken against Communists might extend to other minority groups. People who doubted the vitality of U. S. trade unions feared that the Dies expose might harm, rather than help, the U. S. labor movement. To these Attorney General Frank Murphy spoke soothingly, promised that civil liberties would be preserved while subversive, disloyal and treasonable activities were stamped...
...thanks to the help of the Soviet Union, priests are no longer landowners. Peasants and workers are sharing monastery and church lands. Everybody is entitled to believe or not in God-no compulsion exists...
...were long since taken from their frames and stored "somewhere in England." Famed British Pianist Myra Hess and her teacher, 81-year-old Tobias Matthay, thought up the cheerful idea of filling the empty, tomblike gallery with popular-priced concerts for London's war-worried workers. With the help of a redheaded British adman named Ronald Jones, they got permission from His Majesty's Office of Works to use the sacred space, announced a schedule of first-rate talent, invited the public to seven lunch-and-teatime concerts a week...
...those frames, please," pleaded the gallery's sweating guards. "They cost ?250 each.") By the time the first week's concerts were over, Pianist Hess had received nearly a hundred letters from famous musicians promising voluntary support, or services for a small fee, to help feed London's starved music public...