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Word: fosterers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States, and to gather and disseminate information that 1) will teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every successful form of government, and 2) will teach the duty of government to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when acquired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: ALL | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...Died? Mrs. Eleanor Foster Lansing, 68, daughter of John Watson Foster. Secretary of State under President Harrison, widow of Robert Lansing, Secretary of State under President Wilson; of a heart attack; in Henderson Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 27, 1934 | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...unwonted inconveniences of parentage, Lord Ollebeare foisted off his bastard on a childless brother, a mean but respectable citizen, and thought no more about it. Willoughby's education was informal. His mentors were a coachman, whom he admired, a butler, whom he hated, and the books in his foster-father's library. At 20, without benefit of university, he was sent into the world to make his living. Willoughby's first and only job was as private secretary to bumbling Lord Stumber. Willoughby liked the job, adored Lady Stumber. When his devotion became too obstreperous she made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hearty Misadventures | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

Bardstown loves its legends and of these the Foster story is by no means the dearest. That story concerns Louis Philippe, King of France and his gifts to St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Proto-Cathedral in Bardstown. Rich indeed were Louis Philippe's gifts, if indeed he gave Bardstown a Murillo Virgin, three van Dycks, two van Eycks, a Rubens. If the collection is authentic, it would easily fetch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bardstown Believers | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

Strictly Dynamite (RKO) is an uncomplimentary portrait of a radio clown (Jimmy Durante); his partner and mistress (Lupe Velez); his gagwriter (Norman Foster); and the gag-writer's agent. In it Jimmy Durante says '"incredulous" when he means "incredible"; "confederate" when he means "inveterate." The narrative is interrupted at intervals by a telephone repairman who calls up someone he dislikes to say "Nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 16, 1934 | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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