Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost axiomatic with Left-wing labor leaders is the belief that the U. S. labor movement will fail inevitably unless it includes Negro workers. William Z. Foster, generalissimo of the 1919 steel strike blamed the failure of his great drive directly on Negro labor. Some 85% of Negro labor is unskilled. Not only do Negroes work for less money than whites, but Negroes, particularly if raised in the South, are more impressed by demonstration of civil authority, more easily cowed by tough company tactics. Moreover, Negroes, having been barred, openly or tacitly, from many an old line union, have little...
When the fire burned out, five barns had burned to the ground. Damages were about $40,000. Said Boise's Mayor J. L. Edlefsen: "I fail to see ... what the department could have done." Said Fire Chief W. E. Foster: "It was as hard for our firemen as anyone else to watch those animals burn to death...
...opens with a double funeral in the little French town of Javrezac. Mme Gerfaut has died in childbirth; Mme Devereux's longed-for infant son also. Because the two families are old friends and because one has a plethora of daughters, the other of sons. Mme Devereux becomes foster mother to little Philippe. Claude, youngest of the Devereux girls, and Philippe are brought up like brother & sister...
...first day in school brings tears to the eyes of his foster mother, but gives him a rich feeling of man-about-town...
...marriage with Anstruther MacDonald. She charged him with rape and also with incest, for Anstruther MacDonald is her father. He and her mother had separated when Marjorie was 3. She had not seen him again until she was 12. When she was 14, her mother having died and her foster-father remarried, she went to live with Anstruther MacDonald. Within a year she was not only his daughter but his mistress...