Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Matthews made a last attempt to preserve the appearance of effective unification, fostered so sedulously by Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. He insisted that Admiral Radford should not be heard in open session. It might "give aid & comfort to a potential enemy." The committee overruled...
...World Series-he watched the Yankee-Dodger games in the afternoon either on the twelve-inch television screen in the Oval Room or at Blair House. He cleaned up pressing business, solemnly signing the $1,314,010,000 European arms bill and the $5,809,990,000 foreign economic aid bill. Then, at week's end, he set out for Charlottesville, Va. by automobile to spend two days with his poker-party friend, Stanley Woodward, the State Department's chief of protocol...
...Professor Kirtley Mather and other Harvard officers. When originally conceived in 1938 as an activity of the Cambridge Social Union, the Center applied to its Boston counterpart for guidance. At that time, Mather was president of the Boston organization, and he went out of his way to aid Cambridge in setting up its branch. The enrollment that first year topped 300, and the organizers were encouraged into expanding the following year. More rooms were turned over to classes and the basement was made into a well-equipped workshop, while the number of courses grew steadily. In 1940, the Center broke...
Most of the money which has been donated for scholarship aid has been given with the understanding that the University would see to it that the most deserving students received the benefits of the funds...
...worsening of the investment climate in many countries." Holman thought that Point Four was certainly a fine idea-if it could be made to work. So did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. This week it gave qualified support to the program-provided that the nations receiving the aid sign treaties "assuring fair treatment of American capital...