Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Trufant Foster, Boston pedagog-economist, director of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, and Waddell Catchings, Manhattan manufacturer-financier (shoes, collars, cans, rubber, motors, fruit, cereals, dairy produce, drugs, magazines, cinema), collaborated lately on a book* in which they suggested that all U. S. markets would be steadied if the governmental agencies of the U. S.-federal, state, municipal-would map out and authorize large programs of public work which will be needed eventually though not immediately. Let these programs then be held in abeyance, said the collaborators, until such time as labor and fiscal indices show or predict...
President-Elect Hoover knows all about Collaborators Foster & Catchings. They are the kind of citizens with whom he likes to think and work. Their "road to plenty" has much the same idealistic ring as his own "abolishing poverty." Their job reserve plan served as an exegesis of his own campaign promise of a large continuous public works program. So he authorized Governor Brewster of Maine to explain the job reserve at the Governor's conference in New Orleans last week (see col. 1) and to announce it as an outline of the Hoover plan for protecting Coolidge prosperity...
...attempt to foster a closer contact between undergraduates and the Phillips Brooks House, the Cabinet of the P. B. H. is planning a Harvard conference to be held at Cedar Hill, Waltham, on Saturday and Sunday, December 8 and 9. All members of the Phillips Brooks House and a selected body of undergraduates will be present for the speeches and discussion of the meeting...
...Harvard CRIMSON announced in bold type the fact that a gift of $3,000,000 by an anonymous donor was about to make possible "a radical experiment in undergraduate life" by the establishment of an inner college. The purpose of this innovation, as a residential unit, is to foster "within its walls those features of social and academic life which are left largely to chance in the present existence of upperclassmen at Harvard...
...least of his considerable share of the labors was to foster his cordial relations with European and Asiatic diplomats, all of whom held him in high esteem and gladly gave him their confidence when they feared his austerer chief. "All roads lead ultimately to Magnolia" (House's summer place), said Northcliffe...