Word: help
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northwest from the states and hand it over to the Federal Government. He was against the health bill for much the same reason. But, he warned, "The doctors are in the same position [as labor when it got Taft-Hartley] . . . Unless they are willing to sit down and help work out a sound program of health insurance, they will get legislation they won't care for a little...
...Cominform sent out another new message: all Communists should help set up forthwith a sweeping united front for "peace," cooperating with nearly all elements of the people, "regardless of politics."* A significant overtone gave a clue to what most worried the Cominform in the West: "Special attention should be given to the masses of Catholic workers and their organizations, bearing in mind that religious convictions do not constitute a bar to the unity of workers, especially when such unity is required to save peace...
...this tendency becomes more widespread, Berlin argues, there will be "a rapid end to all the liberal arts and sciences. In such a world A is busily engaged in helping B to train C to help A-to help him toward what goal? Only to make him more useful to B and C; useful in what respect? To make A, B, and C in general more helpful to one another; helpful in doing and being what? This remains unanswered...
Phillips was a graduate student from Nebraska. He had come to study philosophy under Harvard's "greats"-Santayana, Josiah Royee, William James-and he started the book shelf merely to help cover his expenses. It was a success, and in two years was bringing him $1000 beyond his living expenses. Phillips neglected his graduate studies-he didn't receive his Master's degree until 1928-and moved to a store...
Europe's concern over America stems from the belief that it "would inevitably suffer" from a depression here, Flanders said last night. Such a recession, he commented, would help the Communist doctrine "take firmer root...