Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the most gala entertainments arranged for the Windsors were a dinner at the home of the British Ambassador in Washington and a luncheon at the White House while Mrs. Roosevelt was away on a lecture tour, he set off for Washington to persuade the State Department to help put the Windsor tour on a more appropriate footing. By this time, he had informed the U. S. that the correct way to address the couple-whom he punctiliously avoided calling by name, referred to them as "my friends...
Last week the Tennessean's Alexander revealed that three of the original kidnappers, now Tennessee businessmen, without consulting their five companions, broke their 18-year silence only to help Columnist Alexander raise money for expensive operations to save 12-year-old Truman Jr., an infantile paralysis victim. By last week the raid of 1919 had ended well for all concerned: Writer Alexander had received $1,500 from the Satevepost; 90-lb. Buddy Alexander, after two excruciating spinal operations and a blood transfusion from his father, was in a Manhattan hospital, encased in 125 pounds of plaster, grinning and beginning...
...Office of Education will dramatize for U. S. citizens Latin-American history, heroes, culture and wealth. Said U. S. Education Commissioner John W. Studebaker: "This will probably be the first time in history that one government has spent time and money on a sustained effort to help its own citizens appreciate the ideals of people across the border...
Back in Germany, Ludecke did his aggressive best to keep Hitler out of bad company (Goring, Goebbels, Hindenburg, the industrialists), thought Roehm and Strasser the likely ones to help him. This proved a bad guess, and in 1933 Ludecke found himself in disfavor. On the day that Ludecke reached Manhattan, having escaped after eight months in a concentration camp as "Hitler's personal prisoner." he read the headlines announcing the Blood Purge. The shock left him rocking precariously on the pavement. But he had salvaged his life and a profitable store of Hitlerian anecdotes...
...Houses, and farther out by the Maintenance Building. The cost of equipping these lots as playgrounds, with swings and possibly a pair of goal-posts, would be slight, and, if a genuine effort were made in this direction, perhaps the City of Cambridge could be persuaded to lend more help to these youngsters than it does at present. If this were done, workers could be found to organize play, make the fields popular, and instill in the children the elements ofsportsmanship and good conduct...