Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Times of Calamity." To help kill the inferiority complex, Scelba had a plan. Scelba wanted to establish a civilian volunteer force, a kind of home guard, that could protect Italy against Red sabotage. It was Scelba's answer to recent well-documented reports that the Communists are training guerrillas and saboteurs in the hills...
...Francisco music lovers, who are as proud of their 28-year-old opera company as they are of their cable cars and bridges, like nothing better than to score a beat on Manhattan's Met. Often enough in past years, with the help of showmanship, fresh scenery and one of the best-equipped opera houses in the world, they have done just that. Last week, at the 1950 opening-night performance, they got the jump again by offering the U.S. operatic debuts of three European stars in a bang-up production...
...appetite during World War I by a stint under Propaganda Boss George Creel. At war's end, while doing settlement-house work in his spare time, Hecht founded Better Times (still the official organ of the New York Welfare Council) and got the idea for a magazine to help parents give their children better care and training...
When the American Newspaper Guild held its annual convention in Washington last June, the delegates agreed unanimously that the Guild should get into the newspaper business itself. By persuading other union groups to help it start papers, the Guild hoped to combat the increase in newspaper monopolies, i.e., one-publisher cities, and the drop in newspaper jobs. But last week in a membership referendum to authorize an initial expenditure of $50,000 to help start a newspaper, Guild members overwhelmingly (7,426 to 3,192) voted down the proposal. Said one Guild executive vaguely: ". . . People are always skeptical about spending...
...Haldy. Unknown to them, they soon become "my boys," and he is apt to stop them anywhere on campus. "Say, Smithers," he may call out, "I ran across a book you might like . . . Just happen to have it with me," or "Hello there, Smithers, I wonder if you could help me on a little problem." "Before I knew it," said a would-be lawyer who had been subjected to this sort of thing, "I was majoring in chemistry...