Word: helps
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Practical Politician. The Republican Congressional Committee consists of 21 Republican members of the House of Representatives. Its capital, if it gets the same bankroll from the National Committee that it got in 1936, will be $350,000. Its job is to help those Republican candidates who have a fighting chance to get into Congress to do so. This it does by adding to their local campaign chests, writing speeches for them, and helping to publicize their campaigns. The Committee, soon to be enlarged, currently has a staff of three secretaries, two statisticians and two newspapermen, operating under Executive Secretary Earl...
...keep its jobless members under the influence of the union and to help them obtain relief, the U. A. W. last week prepared to charter a special local for WPA workers...
...Chiang Kaishek, "Wife of 1937," who is at Hong Kong while her husband, Generalissimo Chiang, directs the desperate resistance of China. "The strain on the Generalissimo now is gigantic, almost superhuman," said Mme Chiang last week. "I feel that I must do everything in my power to help him hold up under that strain, because I believe his leadership is vital right...
...Eden, one of the most socially-conscious aristocrats who have ever been British Foreign Secretary, once told the House, Mr. Chamberlain reminded his hearers, that "our armaments may be used in bringing help to the victim of aggression in any case where in our judgment it would be proper under the conditions of the [League] Covenant to do so." The Prime Minister, indicating that His Majesty's Government have not renounced that pledge, went on to quote the further explanation of it by Mr. Eden, who continued : "I use the word 'may' deliberately, since, in such...
...which Mr. Fosdick last year distributed for the Rockefeller Foundation, no Italian, Japanese or Russian institution received a cent. In Germany the only beneficiary was the University of Freiburg, which received $19,600. But English institutions received $671,980; French $216,800; Scandinavian and Finnish $191,225. To help the Chinese Government "make over a medieval society in terms of modern knowledge," the Rockefeller Foundation last year allotted $843,875. But "the work, the devotion, the resources, the strategic plans of Chinese leaders for a better China, have disappeared in an almost unprecedented cataclysm of violence. . . . The Foundation still maintains...