Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bookkeeper in the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth he: 1) met his boyhood idol Big Bill Hay wood and 2) was allowed to study all the books on economics and socialism he wanted. A week after he was paroled he joined the Communist Party, spent five years with William Z. Foster boring from within the American Federation of Labor, later visited Russia, passed two years as a union organizer in Hankow, returned to the U. S. along with Depression and be came secretary of the U. S. Communist Party at $40 a week...
...American Legion was founded ostensibly to foster patriotism, and to continue to serve the country in peace as in war. Since the war, the Legion has demanded a bonus for their war services, based on what logic it is difficult to see. They forced payment of that bonus years before it was due. Now they are pressing on to demand pensions for every member, and for their families, no matter when required. Beside these mammoth treasury raids, unhesitatingly made in times of severe economic distress, the petty steals in disability pensions which produced such paradoxes as football players drawing total...
...foster patriotism, and to serve the country in peace as well as in war, the American Legion stages annually the World's Greatest Organized Drunk. There pot-bellied morons, stinking drunk, and once again briefly freed from the ties of home, dirty up the town which has been lucky enough to secure their services, pinch and heckle the female passers-by, and in general demonstrate to the world the manifold advantages of the democracy for which it was, unfortunately, not made safe...
...foster patriotism, and to serve the country in peace as in war, the Legion has backed teacher's oath bills, attempted to gag the press, and indulged in countless notable examples of fair play such as the recent silencing of Mr. Browder...
...becoming a moody, evasive, introspective child, ill at ease both in his own home and at his grandmother's, when the book ends. Around his story revolve those of his kinspeople: Uncle Al is a shoe-salesman, a zealous defender of banal ideas and a tyrannical foster-father; Brother Bill is a sneak thief who has acquired a great store of misinformation about sex; Mother Lizz is a hard-hitting slattern whose great regret is that she did not become a nun; Aunt Margaret is a well-built hotel cashier whose love affair with a lumberman lifts her into...