Word: succor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This errand of succor was of course actually undertaken. Italians were actually rescued by the Reds (TIME, July 23, 1928, et ante). But to present such facts over the radio, the British censor ruled, would be pro-Red propaganda, especially as the broadcast was to close with the Italian national air and the Communist "Red Flag...
...week for Salouen, Tibetan village near the source of the great Yellow River. Salouen is 14,000 ft. high, cold, blustery as the Alpine heights. It is a Buddhist shrine. The St. Bernard group will build a hospice there, will try to convert, Buddhist pilgrims to Roman Catholicism, will succor the snowbound, be they converts or heathen...
...Naples army corps alone sent 12,000 rations of bread, 16,000 tins of meat, 7.500 tents, 15,000 blankets into the stricken district. Anxious as Prime Minister Mussolini was to succor his people, he was still more anxious to preserve Italian dignity, pride. Politely but firmly he refused all offers of help from abroad...
Screams of terror were silenced by the concussion. Followed the tinkling crash of an immense chandelier. Casino attendants rushed in to count the dead, succor the wounded. By what amounted to a miracle nobody had been so much as scratched. In a half-hour the demolished table had been carted out, the chandelier swept up, and croupiers were again crying "Mesdames, Messieurs, faites vos jeux...
...report at decent intervals baby-eating and other newsworthy aspects of the ghastly, unparalleled famine which continues to ravage certain Chinese provinces (see map), a famine so titanic that the Red Cross, despairing, has ceased to give aid. At least 8,000.000 people have already died. Sole agency of succor is the American Board of Famine Relief, 205 East 42nd St., Manhattan...