Word: succor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national map it was only a little puddle, but to Army planes flying succor, it looked like a shoreless yellow sea studded here and there with tree tops and half submerged buildings. To people crouching on house roofs, it was an immeasurable amount of ugly yellow water surging higher and higher hours without...
...musical director, Dr. Adrian Cedric Boult; and among the 53 others knighted were George VI's private secretary, Major the Hon. Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, and Nigel Leslie Campbell, principal banking trustee for the $10,000,000 philanthropic fund just given by Motor Maker Lord Nuffield to succor Britain's unemployed and honor Stanley Baldwin for his handling of the Constitutional Crisis (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Nuffield got nothing, and the peerages strongly predicted in London for Cunard White Star Board Chairman Sir Percy Elly Bates, apropos the Queen Mary, and Home Secretary Sir John Simon, apropos...
...Admiral Grayson, as chairman of the Red Cross, Admiral Leahy, as chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Waesche as commandant of the Coast Guard, General Craig as Army Chief of Staff, Harry Hopkins as Relief Administrator and CCC Director Fechner assembled with the President to set the wheels of succor turning day & night for 400,000 flood victims. And the flood was merely one more unexpected item in the torrent of events which proceeded to baptize the new term. One day John L. Lewis boldly demanded that the President help the C. I. 0. lick General Motors and was turned...
...honor and enjoyment. Actually, it becomes almost as great a drain on his resources as a Mr. Fix-It as was the birth of the quintuplets on his skill as an obstetrician. In one afternoon he finds himself obliged, as mentor for the 3,000, to: 1) succor a suicidal cinemactress, 2) trick a U. S. Governor into adopting a child, 3) bring his assistant and his nurse together, 4) save an old friend from losing his young wife. All this leaves the audience with renewed conviction that sequels are rarely as good as the first instalment...
Only one last road from Madrid to the sea was open last week, the 294-mile railway to Valencia. Having cut off the Capital from all other avenues of succor or escape, the White Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco were advancing with such vigor that Premier Largo Caballero and his Cabinet were daily rumored, via Rebel sources, on the point of flight. Disciplined effectiveness suddenly appeared in the roving mobs of Premier Largo Caballero's proletarian militiamen. These have fought bravely enough time and again, but too often only in their own good time and place. This week they...