Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico went to Ponce last week with 100,000 other visitors to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the U. S. Occupation. With native officials, members of the Insular National Guard, officers from the U.S.S. Enterprise and a U. S. destroyer, he mounted a stand to review a gala parade...
...toasted Benito as "one in whom shines the splendor of an ancient and ever-renewed Latin spirit!" Benito shined up Béla, and as the champagne went round it was conveniently forgotten that one of the chief purposes for which the Protocols were made was to help maintain the independence of Austria. Reputedly last week Hungary was sounded in Rome on the proposition that Yugoslavia, with whom Italy has ended her ancient feud, may shortly be asked to join the bipod, making it again a tripod. Keeping all Hungary's cards close to his chest, her Premier ended...
...European quarters had certain common denominators: 1) Everyone agreed that Chancellor Hitler, by means of an emissary, had assured Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Germany wants a "peaceful solution" of the Czechoslovak Question, not a war. 2) None doubted that in Paris the British had urged the French to help induce Prague to make to the Sudeten Germans the utmost concessions likely to avert war, short of destroying the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia. 3) It was certain that Mr. Chamberlain's quiet aversion for the Soviet Union, plus his long standing resolve to draw Britain, Germany, France and Italy into...
...mutually beneficial use unless there is at least an approximation to equality in their respective situations." In its May 26, 1938 issue, P. I. was still following the same line: "If either capital or labor goes down it will pull the other with it. ... It would help mightily at this critical stage if certain reactionary capitalists would remember that capitalism is not their individual possession...
...nights later, plump, matronly Amateur Hall stayed up until 4 a. m. to tell Pitcairners that Manhattan's British Consulate had cabled the High Commissioner of Suva, Fiji, to help them. Samaritan Mrs. Hall has talked to Pitcairn every night since. Said she: "I have never been anywhere, but my voice...