Word: aid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...betrayed his disillusion, a U. S. Communist told Fred Beal that the Russians should have shot him while they had him. When he returned for keeps in 1937, he was no longer a martyr to the Communists. Their International Labor Defense not only refused to aid Fred Beal but covertly discouraged all efforts to save him. He was arrested last year at his brother's home in Lawrence...
...Others (nonCommunists) who now aid Convict Beal: U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette's cousin Suzanne, Author Eugene Lyons (Assignment in Utopia), Raleigh Editor Jonathan Daniels...
...that the U. S. should fight Germany, if the Allies appear to be losing, dropped from 44% in the first week in September to 29% last week; 2) 84% in the U. S. want the Allies to win; 3) 62% believe the U. S. should do everything possible to aid the Allies "short of war"; 4) 60% believe the arms embargo should be repealed...
...swept overboard clutching a shipmate's spectacles. Steward Schwerdtfeger grasped Mrs. William Buckler by one foot just as she was going over the rail. In the ship's hospital Dr. Thomas Fister was sent spinning with bottles, instruments, in water up to his knees, staggered back to aid the engine-room storekeeper, whose appendix he had just removed. Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, in his cabin with his wife and four children, was knocked unconscious. A kettle of boiling water and grease engulfed Fred Stover, chief butcher. Mrs. Tatiana Sztybel, refugee from the siege of Warsaw...
...This natural deadlock in all talks was skillfully used by Hitler who offered to give Russia her much-desired lost provinces in return for her aid...