Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker was William Zebulon Foster, famed U. S. Communist. He was speaking in Manhattan, where some 250 delegates to the Workers (Communist) party convention were about to nominate Comrade Foster for President of the U. S. His speech constituted a sort of premature acceptance oration...
Like any other politician, Candidate Foster was careful to omit none of his party's time-tested cliches. Another "tool of the Capitalists," he said, was Democrat Smith. The Workers party, he explained, was part of the Communist International. It was a revolutionary party. Its aim was to overthrow the capitalist order in the U. S. Capitalism bred war. Capitalism would involve the U. S. in the "next...
...Galanis 4 16-30 F. H. Williams, Jr. 24 31-45 J. L. Sweetman 32 46-60 R. H. Clapp 52 MOWER South Entry J. L. Beauchamp 4 North Entry R. T. Dunn 8 PERKINS 1-22 W. C. Waring, Jr. 8 23-44 H. S. Foster, Jr. 28 45-66 A. B. Brown 42 67-88 G. H. Ferguson 58 28 PLYMPTON ST. J. S. French 2 RANDOLPH 1-12 James Lawrence, Jr. 1 13-24 H. L. Movius, Jr. 19 26-36 B. W. Stevens 32 37-48 James DeNormandie 43 49-70 John Appleby 62 RUSSELL...
...power to deal with such utility practices as might seem suspicious in the evidence. Chief among the trade commission's discoveries which have excited vigilant patriots is the distribution of text books and public utility "catechisms" circulated by thousands in the public schools of several states to foster the idea that government-operation of light, gas and power companies is un-American if not Bolshevistic. This school-book scheme appeared to have been originated by Samuel Insull, public utility pope of Chicago. The chief propagandist of the industry has been the National Electric Light Association. Citizens awaited completion...
...Forbes-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Child of witches burned in Brittany, Bilby's Doll is haunted in Salem by the stench of their burning flesh, remembers their Black Masses, and says the Lord's Prayer backward. Thereupon the impish child is accused of withering the fruit of her foster-mother's womb, and of casting a fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff...