Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosenwald announced that his gift would be made on condition that an additional $5,000,000 be subscribed by other philanthropists. He selected as the recipient of this contingent contribution the parent board, of the so-called Agro-Joint or "American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation." Though little famed, the Corporation has been functioning since 1924 in an effort to get Jews established as painlessly as possible on the rich farm lands granted them by the Soviet State in the Ukraine, Crimea and White Russia...
...Rosen's work at that time in instructing Russians how to farm efficiently and rotate their crops came the founding of Agro-Joint, at his suggestion, with the financial support of a parent board, the so-called J. D. C. or "Joint Distribution Committee" (of the U. S.) which is now chairmanned by famed Felix M. Warburg, Manhattan banking tycoon...
Such words made paternalism sound genuinely beneficent, quite omitting reference to any profit which the Parent hoped to make while teaching its sturdy children...
Last week a smart launch detached itself and cut shoreward from the side of the S. S. President McKinley as she steamed into Manila Bay. From the launch, which seemed the liner's emissary, stepped Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, emissary of the parent U. S. to the Philippines...
Returning to Malacanan, Governor General Stimson cabled to Washington (and released to the local press) his hope that no tariff would be levied on Philippine sugar. Changing to flannels, he relaxed before the evening's state reception by engaging Eugene Allen Gilmore, who had acted as the Parent's voice from General Wood's death till now, in two sets of tennis, one of which...