Sentences with phrase «aid societies turned»
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When children began arriving at Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th century, immigrant aid societies, churches, synagogues, and private citizens provided care and guardianship.
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Marlen Suyapa Bodden was working at the Legal Aid Society in New York when she stumbled upon the story that would turn her from a lawyer to a novelist.
- I am being aided primarily by a society of people that belong to some kind of secretive ancient order going back centuries (and there is a splinter group of them that have turned traitor and work for the villain now).
According to the Ottawa Citizen, lawyers from the Children's Aid Society and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario turned up for the hearing, which concerned the release of hospital records.
He noted that New York City's Legal Aid Society was turning away 8 of every 9 applications for help due to lack of funding.