Word: aid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advantages over other forms of employment aid are as important as they are obvious. Positions thus provided are certain, the student being assured of his meal-ticket before returning to college each fall. Such jobs can be provided by the University as part of an integrated plan of student assistance. And, finally, T.S.E. employees are entirely under the supervision and control of the University...
...letter to the "Alumni Bulletin," Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, defends his support of aid for Spain as follows...
...your issue of October 14, Dr. R. H. Miller announced that a letter had been sent to him by "The Medcal Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy"; that it presented an appeal for a contribution to a fund; and that the contribution was to be in my honor as a "champion of democracy" and to go to Dr. Juan Negrin, Prime Minister of the Spanish Republic. Dr. Miller wrote, "I wish to protest against this." Just what he meant by "this" is not clear...
...omitted. More than 3,000,000 women and children in Loyalist territory are homeless, destitute, and hungry. Already the ravages of disease due to malnutrition have begun to appear. It is reported that at least 4,000 cases of pellagra have developed in Madrid alone. The Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy is doing what it can to mitigate the plight of these innocent victims of the war. Dr. Miller, as a humane physician, surely does not protest against that effort...
...Miller continued, "Every well informed person knows that this so-called Spanish Republic is not a democracy, but a communist state aided both materially and spiritually by the present regime in Russia." May I point out that the legitimate government in Spain was placed in power by democratic process in February, 1936; that of the 473 deputies then elected to the Cortes only 16 were communists; and that when Franco revolted in July, 1936, there was in the government neither a communist nor a socialist. The revolt, aided from the start by Hitler and Mussolini, did, indeed, force a coalition...