Word: selfhelp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marks be collected by June 15. Efforts to draw from the Ministry of Economics some explanation of how the $400,000,000. fund will revolve were met by bland assertions that it is covered by no law and hence must be considered an unofficial German movement of economic selfhelp. This explanation, German officials seemed to hope, may protect their Government from foreign charges that Germany has resorted to dumping as a weapon of national policy. So far as could be learned the procedure is as follows...
Enthusiasm for his favorite relief project took President Roosevelt to the Department of Commerce building one morning last week to inspect an exhibit of subsistence homesteads and other forms of local selfhelp. Set up in the auditorium were models of homesteads, samples of co-operative-made furniture, rugs, tools, quilts, etc. Before he left the White House the President had not intended to make a speech to a heterogeneous audience which included three Cabinet members, Bernard Baruch, the Federal Administrator of Relief, some Congressmen. Mrs. Roosevelt and many a humble relief worker. But by the time he left the auditorium...
...life thereafter has been the life of Kent School, where he has built up his system of student self-government and student selfhelp. Sixth formers use "the Pater's" study as their club. When they sit listening to his slow, deep voice they feel the worth of the responsibility he assigns them as prefects, as supervisors of the two daily "Job Assemblies," where they see to it that the school's work?scrubbing, window-washing, leaf-raking, everything but cooking?is performed properly. Four or five times a term a whole form gets a holiday, goes out to work...