Word: succor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London potent Baron Melchett (Alfred Moritz Mond), one of the foremost British industrial tycoons, pledged ?5000 ($25,000) to feed and succor the hundreds of Palestine Jews burnt out of their homes or left orphaned, widowed, destitute. London Bankers James A. de Rothschild quickly followed with a like sum. So did Manhattan's Felix Warburg, who was in London. A fourth $25,000 was pledged by Chicago's Julius Rosenwald, and a fifth by Manhattan's Nathan Straus. Before the week was out, Mr. Straus had doubled his $25,000 pledge and lesser contributions from world Jewry...
...lives tranquilly at Winchester. . . . The discovery of Marie Byrd Land seemed likely to mark the end of Byrd explorations by air this year in Antarctica. Ice floes were closing in at the approach of antarctic winter. Last week the supply ship Eleanor Bolling was hurrying from New Zealand to succor the base bark City of New York in the fast-packing Bay of Whales...
From the Russian frontier loyal Afghan troops under War Minister Mohammed Vali Khan rushed to succor Kabul last week. Indomitable, they crossed by forced marches the high and snow-capped Hindu Kush, debouching at last upon the plain of Kabul. Throughout the week British army planes from India took off 20 white women from Kabul, mostly British and German, but including one honeymooning U. S. bride, Mrs. Carol Isaacson...
...terrible revenge on his city, instigating and leading a Spartan attack-until Athens was forced to recall him. But his restoration was short-lived. Again he was exiled, and again his only companion was the Egyptian princess employed by Persia to plot against him, but compelled by devotion to succor and protect him. The story of their love is vivid against a background of Bacchanalian orgies, momentous gatherings in the Pnyx, subtle intrigues in Persian tents, sea-fights, trireme grappled to trireme...
Appropriately the official attention-caller was revealed as Rudolph Spreckels. As all Californians know, the fame of the sugar family Spreckels rests on sugar pioneering. And the bright, particular fame of Rudolph Spreckels emerged from the succor he gave an ailing sugar business exactly 30 years...