Word: help
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should you print this letter, it may be that someone interested in the fate of these people will see it and help in meeting the expenses involved...
...came before their King, the cruel and crafty John, to ask a government of liberty and by law. Twice John "Lackland" denied their plea. The plea became a battle cry, the petitioners an army. London threw open its gates to them, so did Lincoln and Exeter. Wales promised help, and the Scottish nobles spurred south to add the strength of their swords. The country had risen as a man: John found himself with but seven loyal horsemen in his train, facing a nation in arms...
...last two months, long-suffering Orchard has been haunting the Suffolk County Courthouse in a vain search for someone who would help him retrieve his long lost $20. He was put to this expense when held last spring as a material witness to a jewelry store robbery on the Square...
There are, of course, activities and activities. Habitual residence at the Ritz bar may be one of the latter. Others are valuable, but hardly educational in the Conant-Landis-Hutchins sense: Phillips Brooks House might be mentioned. Many others, however, actually do help to readjust the educational balance which is now so heavily on the side of subject matter, so far from the ideal of method...
...Robert E. Lee was the ancient warrior who sprang forth and struck and cut and mangled as if to tear the guts and heart out of the enemy. . . ." The Union General George Brinton McClellan, who prudently chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln a long year of anguish. Yet by resisting for months public and political pressure to remove him, Lincoln allowed him to build a great army; by later reappoint-ing him, again against great pressure, he restored to the army the one favorite...