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Word: fosterers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio, were hot in pursuit. First word of the escaped convicts came by telephone to radio station WOW, reporting them heading toward Gretna, 23 miles southwest of Omaha. Soon police, newsmen and radio newscasters with mobile transmitters were on the trail, among them WOW's dapper News Editor Foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Nemesis by Air | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...searchers combed the farm lands nearby, the bitter cold weather became too much for Foster May and he ducked into a small, lighted shack to warm up. Inside, another man was toasting himself. The man recognized May, they chatted briefly, and then May left to join the chase. Outside an idea suggested itself. Back went May and began asking pointed questions. The man stirred himself wearily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Nemesis by Air | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Spectacular, bespectacled Waddill Catchings in 1928 co-authored (with William Trufant Foster) a book called The Road to Plenty showing how the U. S. boom could be made to pop higher & higher like a Roman candle. In 1928 and 1929 Waddill Catchings got conservative old Goldman, Sachs & Co. to light up such investment-trust skyrockets as Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. and Shenandoah Corp., which soared and sank magnificently. Last week, while fireworks were still popping out of the McKesson & Robbins box (including an SEC investigation of Price, Waterhouse auditing), who should step in, match-in-hand, but impish Waddill Catchings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Catchings on Coster | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...River (Twentieth Century-Fox). Bill Robinson, Preston Foster, Phyllis Brooks and Arthur Treacher in an amusing remake of a 1930 comedy satirizing 1) realistic prison drama, by showing a pen- itentiary which resembles a glorified country club; 2) college sporting drama, by showing the bizarre doings of the Rockwell Prison football team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...later Chris was released to Mrs. Harriet Atwood, wealthy farmer's widow, began attending the one-room Bigelow Rural School in Calhoun County, Michigan. He grew faster than most of his 15 schoolmates, got pretty good marks in everything but conduct. was soon demanding special privileges because his foster mother was president of the school board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bad Boy's Background | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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