Word: aid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indecisively pondering its answer to the Anglo-French proposals, the Government sent a blunt question to Paris: What would France do about its pact with Czechoslavakia if Prague's answer was no? The question was born of desperation. Under the treaty setups, Czechoslovakia can call on France for aid only if she is the victim of "unprovoked aggression," can call upon Russia only after France has marched. President Benes had been informed that Paris might regard a Czechoslovak refusal to do as Britain and France demanded as "provoking aggression" from Germany, canceling the treaty safeguards, absolving those...
When the Soviet Union's Foreign Commissar, roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was reminded by correspondents last spring that Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union have no common frontier and was asked how his country could possibly go to Czechoslovakia's aid in case of war, the Commissar exclaimed: "Where there's a will there...
...meanwhile mirrored by his landlord, Diego Rivera, who took time out from painting a mural for a Pittsburgh capitalist to issue awful warnings: "Lombardo Toledano has closely intertwined his fate with that of the Soviet oligarchy in the Kremlin. From there he receives instructions and all kinds of aid. For Moscow it is a question of transforming the workers' organizations of all America into an obedient instrument of Joseph Stalin...
...office, with his mallet wrist strapped to keep a loose tendon in place, it looked bad for Sonny Whitney's side. A few moments later it looked even worse when Sonny was cracked on the forehead by Cousin Jock's mallet, carried to a first aid tent to have the gash stitched together. But, like most poloists who refuse to be downed unless they are out, Westbury's Back was back in the game, after a rest of 20 minutes, with a bandage around his head, carrying on like the spirit...
...Texas Power & Light, an affiliate of huge Electric Bond & Share Co., penned a similar letter to the Lower Colorado River Authority, TVA of the Southwest. Allegedly sponsoring flood control, LCRA has urged a number of municipalities along the Colorado River to build their own power plants with PWA aid. Texas Power & Light has 1,277 miles of power line serving 13,200 customers in this Texas area, which is as big as Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. Last week, President Carpenter offered to sell this chunk of his system to LCRA, saying "the difficulties which confront power companies, faced with competition...