Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Jewish population regardless of age and sex, accompanied, as at Hebron, by acts of unspeakable savagery. . . . My first duties are to restore order in the country and inflict stern punishment upon those found guilty of the acts of violence. I charge all inhabitants of Palestine to assist...
...Federal Farm Board agreed upon a $9,000,000 loan, half from its own resources, half from California banks, to grape and raisin growers to assist them in marketing the 1929 crop. Since Prohibition the grape industry has boomed, vineyards have been doubled, overexpansion has occurred...
...No.1: "No one is in a position to know whether the boats . . . are Canadian-owned or American-owned because nearly all vessels which Canada has reported as clearing for the U. S. with liquor cargoes are not recorded in the U. S." Statement No. 2 was particularly offensive to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman in charge of Prohibition who has repeatedly asserted that 85% of U. S. liquor comes in via Canada. Minister Euler definitely rejected the U. S. proposal that Canada, by act of Parliament, prohibit clearance papers for U. S. liquor cargoes, explaining that such a prohibition...
...engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, Col. Roop went to France with the engineers and became chief of the A. E. F.'s Purchasing Division. That gave him contact with General Dawes. When General Dawes grappled dramatically with the first budget in 1921, Col. Roop, as a chief assistant, grappled with him, without the dramatics. When Director Dawes quit in 1922, Assistant Roop quit. When Mr. Dawes went last spring to Santo Domingo, he recalled Budgetman Roop to his side to assist in preparing a financial system in that little republic. When General Dawes returned to be ambassador to Britain...
...very easy to spot a good "assistant," and also a poor one. In the first place, the good assistant knows his subject and can present it to his students in an intelligent way. In the second place, his attitude to his students is friendly. The poor "assistant" very often is so unable to teach that he completely conceals whatever knowledge he has of the subject. He gives the impression of knowing nothing whatsoever about it. He also gives the impression that he is out to "beat" the student in a little game that he wins if he can give...