Word: foster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Delegate William F. Dunne, blue-shirted Communist leader from the Silver Bow Labor Council of Butte, Mont., indicted associate of W. Z. Foster, was expelled from the Convention, without any Gomperian steamrolling, 27,838 votes to 130. Dunne was charged with destructive designs upon trade unionism, on the strength of a speech he made in Portland ridiculing the Convention and its leaders...
...conference in Washington will be opened by Eleanor Foster Lansing, Chairman of the U. S. section of the Committee. Mrs. Lansing has every claim to being a true Lady of the State Department; her father was John W. Foster, who succeeded James G. Elaine as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Benjamin Harrison; her husband is Robert Lansing, who succeeded William J. Bryan as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Woodrow Wilson. Besides her diplomatic antecedents, Mrs. Lansing is at home in such a gathering because of her mastery of both Castilian and South American Spanish...
...Federated Press news service, for labor publications, because it gives more attention to any protesting minority than to the bona fide trade union movement," and because William Z. Foster and Arne Swabeck are asserted to be directors of the Press...
...need for the tutor. In the second there readily might be. To have men, tutors or advisers, call them what you will, to oversee, guide, and encourage the individual work of the students in the department would certainly be of great assistance. Such men would inevitably foster a disposition in the students to go from the particular to the general and for example to bring Geography and History into their proper connection with the national literature. In fact this is the very system employed in a course that I give myself, German 25; the assistant performs the duties of tutor...
Socialism and Communism have always been anathema to him. He fought the propaganda of the Socialist Berger and still fights the radicalism of William Z. Foster and the " Soviet invasion " of the U. S. He has said in his speeches: "I pity the Socialists. . . . I have read all their books. I know all their arguments. . . . I do not regard them as rational beings. ... If the lesser and immediate demands of labor could not be obtained from society as it is, it would be mere dreaming to preach and pursue the will-o'-the-wisp, a new society constructed from rainbow...