Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week long, at their Miami convention, the Legion's aging delegates were on their best behavior. Some 700 Legionnaires had been assigned to police duty to help keep order. If water pistols were flourished too carelessly, they were seized. Electric canes were appropriated on sight. Fat and fiftyish, the average delegate spent his time forlornly window-shopping with his wife, listening to assorted oratory. He perked up enough to review the lissome candidates for "Miss Majorette of America for 1948," voted Illinois' Mary Jean Peterson fairest of them all. But the big, 5½-hour parade was marred...
...month the Melanesians were crying "Sing-out-Sorri" for the needy children of the whole world. "Palanti piki-nini," wrote a reporter in the Rabaul (New Britain) News, were in trouble, sick, starving, and "nogat moo, papa na mama" "Yumi ologeta," he wrote, "i halivim" (You me altogether we help 'em). In the U.S. some 25 private charities had half-heartedly joined with the U.N. to make the same sing-out in the United Nations Appeal for Children, but their unwieldy, badly organized campaign was a dud. Instead of a hoped-for $60 million it had turned up only...
...villain in the piece was bureaucracy; minor officials of the two countries were involved in a prolonged haggle over wages and terms of employment. Meanwhile the braceros milled about in Juárez, restless, hungry and shelterless. Juárez' Mayor Carlos Villarreal pleaded for help. He got it-from an unexpected direction...
Radcliffe's Students for Democratic Action, a student division of Americans for Democratic Action, has been canvassing voters in the various wards, urging that they register. The group has been working with the Harvard Liberal Union in an effort to help defeat the "anti-labor" referenda...
...University has made no move to ease the problem by allowing parking on its property--more specifically, in the Eliot-Winthrop-Kirkland triangle. But two steps can help a portion of the now harried driving population: removal of the chain across the entrance to the triangle and the opening of at least one side of the House driveway for all-night parking...