Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help to this great cause, a suggestion has been made recently in the press by Mr. G. P. Bainbridge of Vancouver, B. C. that a postage stamp be printed for common use by both the U. S, and Canada during Their Majesties' visit. Those used in Canada could be surcharged "Canada" and "United States" could be printed on those used there...
...subject to such pressure, Franklin Roosevelt who never loved the strict provisions of the Neutrality Act stood by it. He knew that at such a late hour lifting the embargo would involve the U. S. in diplomatic trouble and threaten U. S. peace far more effectively than it could help Loyalist Spain. This put the President in an unusual spot for him: on the unpopular side of a question. But he did not refer to these facts when he replied, through the press, to the clamoring friends of Loyalist Spain. He referred all pleaders to the State Department, whose legalists...
...candles at the White House for a big party of family & friends including, as usual, members of the Cuff-Links Gang-eight men whose friendship dates back to Franklin Roosevelt's days as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and to whom he gave cufflinks in remembrance of their help in his unsuccessful campaign for Vice President...
...front in Aragon became scandalously inactive. So conspicuous was Barcelona's failure to wage effective warfare against the Fascists, either industrially or militarily, that a favorite, bitter Loyalist quip was that Catalonia, alone of 27 European nations, had lived faithfully up to the non-intervention agreement not to help either side in the Spanish War. In May 1937, Anarchists tried to seize Barcelona and the Central Government, then at Valencia, had to send troops to Catalonia to restore order...
...raids. By last autumn many an ardent antiFascist, his belly gnawed by hunger and his nerves frayed by bombs, began to wonder if, after all, the oppression of Fascism could be any worse. When, three days before Barcelona fell, the Loyalist Government called out all men to help build fortifications to withstand a siege, the city was war weary and apathetic. The job was quietly sabotaged. Many evaded the draft, many worked only halfheartedly. In the last few days before the fall, many Rebel sympathizers-the "Fifth Column"-openly showed their political feelings...