Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time to pay. Plans for the million-dollar Embassy were abandoned, the idle Embassy staff was pared to the bone. Climax came last summer when President Roosevelt was forced to transmit through Ambassador Bullitt a sharp note charging the Russian Government with flagrant violation of its pledge not to foster Red propaganda on U. S. soil (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). Early last June disillusioned Bill Bullitt returned to the U. S. At the Patrick Henry Bicentennial celebration in Hanover County, Va. in July, appearing as the President's representative but with every listener keenly aware that the subject...
Dean Leighton, foster parent to all Yardlings, will set up a registration booth at the Union on Quincy Street and room assignments will be made there. Meals will be served in that building and tickets, instructions, etc., can be obtained there...
...Chicago, glib, young polo-playing Charles Foster Glore, president of Chicago Corp. as well as a partner in the brokerage house of Field, Glore & Co., told newshawks that Chicago Corp., an investment company, and A. G. Becker & Co., investment bankers, had bought Continental Illinois National Bank's holdings in Middle West Corp. Chicago Corp. takes three-fifths of the purchase, Becker & Co the rest. The price: $12 a share, giving Continental, in which Chicago Corp. has large holdings, a small profit on its once forlorn investment in Middle West Corp...
Sandemose used to write in Danish, his native language. Then he wrote a potboiler whose success disgusted him so that he left Denmark, settled in Norway, took to writing in Norwegian. Last week his second book in his foster-tongue was published in the U. S. Cover-to-cover readers of A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks did not have to be told that its author was pernickety. But when they heard that he was being likened to James Joyce, they wondered how much of his doubly-translated book had come through the wash. To old-fashioned readers who could remember...
...workers locked out of Henry Clay Frick's Homestead mill near Pittsburgh captured a boatload of Pinkerton guards, won a historic industrial battle but subsequently lost their first attempt to force labor unions on the highly individualistic steel industry. In 1919 a Chicago railway organizer named William Zebulon Foster tried his hand at organizing Steel. This attempt degenerated because American Federation of Labor unions were more anxious to protect their individual interests than to bring steelworkers into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. As in 1919, the great 1936 fight to unionize 500,000 steelworkers will...