Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closing the dining halls. As a free educational institution Harvard can scarcely take the risk of being circumscribed by an outside force. Impractical demands for higher and higher wages by the closed shop, or objections to the employment of non-union workers in other parts of the University, may foster disputes between the two organizations. As a leader in liberal thought, Harvard should practice enlightened leadership in dealing with its labor problem, but at the same time it should reserve the right to exercise independent action...
...though by no means languorous, is calm enough to fall in love with a bashful musician, and charming enough to carry him off. Aubrey Mather is equally flawless as the corpulent colleague of the hero, who irritates and is irritated by his fellow pedagogue in numerous amiable ways. Phoebe Foster is quite satisfactory as the quietly domineering aunt, relieved of her nieces in time to scare the leading housemaster with the threat of marrying him, and marrying the other one instead. You won't laugh at this play so much as you'll smile in silent enjoyment...
...career was nearly blighted two years ago by a luckless appearance in Ben Hecht's & Charles MacArthur's haphazard Once in a Blue Moon; Billy House, fleshy Mr. Bones of old-time minstrelsy; addlepated Comedienne Alice Brady; Mischa Auer, well cast as a lean and bony swami. Foster Fathers Savo, Lahr, House and Auer combine their comic efforts in cementing the romance of their theatre-born ward (Joy Hodges) and Scion John King. Since this scheme merely involves hoodwinking Alice Brady it turns out to be not too difficult. Comics Auer and Savo dabble in the occult. House...
...grave 42-year-old Oliver Franklin Holden, assistant make-up editor, decided that "in this era of turmoil" newspapermen needed organization but along totally different lines from the bread-&-butter aggressiveness of the American Newspaper Guild. The six drew in their friends, organized the American Press Society, "free to foster the economic welfare of its members by methods which would not tend to reduce newspaper salaries to minimum standards or lead to strikes or other coercive and violent measures tending to impair the reputation and dignity of journalism as a profession." The Society would ''not commit itself...
...Johnson County, Mo., Ben Yocum, 23, went to work on Mr. & Mrs. Ben Williams' farm, confided that his real name was Ipock, got permission to take their daughter Mary Lee Williams, 21, to visit his foster parents, the Yocums. Month later when Ben and Mary returned, Mrs. Williams announced she had a surprise for them: Mary Lee was only an adopted daughter, her real name was Mary Lee Ipock and she was Ben Ipock's sister. Brother & Sister Ipock had a greater surprise for Mrs. Williams: not suspecting their relationship, they had been married a month...