Word: succor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loss during the World War. Operating in peace time under the Treasury Department, the chief business of the 11,966 officers & men and 350 vessels of the Coast Guard is saving lives & property, not shooting 'leggers. They bring the only touch of civilization to remote corners of Alaska, succor Mississippi River flood victims, rescue bathers on the Great Lakes, conduct the international North Atlantic iceberg patrol which was instituted in 1914 after the Titanic disaster. Last week the Coast Guard got a new commandant...
...again in 1910, he must now write a tremendous chapter in U. S. utility lore. Not until the final plan of reorganization is approved by each fretful banker and every anxious note-holder will Samuel Insull know whether the chapter will be one of collapse and disruption or succor and survival...
...toward Srinagar with the object of dethroning Sir Hari and completing a solid block of Moslem states from Egypt to Central Asia. Near Rajaori, just north of Punjab, they sacked 14 villages, fired houses and post offices. State troopers hastily left Srinagar, while Sir Hari appealed frantically for British succor...
...poor man who willed his soul to "his mooste blessed moder, Saint Mary Virgyn, Quene of Heven Lady of the Worlde and Emporesse of Helle." The great man, too, can cry, with the great Vincent de Beauvais: "O Lady, Lady, if thou fail thy servants, who will succor them...
...destroyed, its motor roared. Dodging neatly between sampans, the Colonel put on speed. "As our ship took off," he related, "the people realized that no relief had arrived for them and their violent hopes sank. " Back in Nanking, the Colonel took counsel, announced that he would attempt no more succor flights. "I am convinced," said he, "that the only way to place doctors in the flooded towns would be to send them with a military escort." Later Col onel & Mrs. Lindbergh said they would make further "survey flights," would carry a League of Nations observer over China's flooded...