Word: needs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vermont alone had more than 400 bridges to replace before her highways would be passable. Governor John E. Weeks, when able, wired President Coolidge that Vermont would need all the aid Washington and the Red Cross could send. The President sent Attorney General Sargent and asked Secretary Hoover to follow this week. The Vermont Emergency Board, established in 1923, met for the first time. Governor Smith of neighboring New York, sent over truckloads of workmen & supplies. Army planes flew from Boston, under Major General Preston Brown, to Vermont's assistance, carrying mail & medicines...
...activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems', 'the Protestant confessional'. The name makes little difference. What does matter is the renewed awareness in the churches that they are in danger of surrendering to the psychoanalyst that vast field of human need where the con fession of sin and spiritual misery is met with sympathetic and intelligent treatment...
...their Forum ... lying on the cushions of their litters caressing with obscene fingers their boy-favorites--gloating sadistically, in their amphitheatres and circuses, over the butchery of unhappy gladiators and starved wild animals. They are fat heavy-jowled men with cruel eyes. To make the picture perfect all they need is big cigars.," So much for the men who built one of the largest empires in the world, certainly the empire whose institutions had the most lasting historical influences...
...courageous crew. I might tell you stirring tales of the family's heroic past--of the Forecast who died for an idea-- of the Forecast who was confined for life for lack of an idea. But I will not. Rather will I show you that the Forecast of today need not hide their heads when their ancestor's names are mentioned...
...even the cold need of culture dashed on the fire of curiosity can only make a sizzling noise. The fire burns just the same, giving glow enough to draw a sparkle from the jewel most of us are too weak, too pale to wear...