Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deeply grateful for the help America has extended us with humanitarian materials, but such help must be altered if the Finnish population is not to be massacred. ... If our civilians-our old men and women and children-are to be killed in their houses, as is happening every day in our cities, towns and villages, they will have no need for food and clothing...
Asked to write a plea for Herbert Hoover's Finnish relief fund, crusty old Author Theodore Dreiser replied: "I am not just another American propaganda sucker," added: "If our papers do not lie, and they never lie, it is the Russians who seem to need help against the Finns...
...White House conferees, all this called for more child help from the U. S. Government. They plumped for a glittering, 83-point program: Federal aid for schools, libraries, medical care, playgrounds, housing. They were only momentarily discouraged when President Franklin Roosevelt, addressing the conference, declared: "The permanent answer is not mere handouts from the Federal Treasury but has to be solved by improving the economics of the poorer sections. . . ." As the conference closed, Secretary Perkins prophesied: "The program . . . is one which I predict will be worked upon . . . for 30 years to come, when a new generation, pray God, is better...
...whether quacks still hold the field. Last week Social Hygienists Mary Stockton Edwards and Paul Michael Kinsie published the results of the traveling investigator. Gloomy were their conclusions. Some 5,000,000 venereal disease victims, said they, out of a total of 18.000,000, still run to quacks for help each year. Interesting statistics...
Fortnight ago SEC sent the sprawling, tangled Associated Gas & Electric system to the reorganization wringer by forbidding its subsidiaries to pay it unearned dividends (TIME, Jan. 22). Then it rolled up its sleeves to help the Federal court simplify and integrate the system built with 172 subsidiary corporations...