Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Forthwith Comrade Ben Gitlow was expelled from the Executive Committees of the Communist International and Pro-fintern (Red International of Trade Unions), replaced by William Foster as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. Back in the U. S. a month later, he refused the CPU's offer of a job in Latin America to keep his mouth shut, was kicked out altogether...
Busy Producer Darryl F. Zanuck takes time out from the drum-thumping phases of U. S. history (as seen and heard in Drums Along the Mohawk) to do a long, lavish, Technicolored, cinema biography of U. S. Composer Stephen Foster. Foster, while drinking himself to death, turned out most of the best U. S. folk songs. In pictures about composers a vacant look, head noddings and rhythmic hand flourishes denote musical inspiration. With these appropriate symptoms Don Ameche, as Stephen Foster, is shown conceiving his songs. Al Jolson (Christy the minstrel man) sings them, manages to mar their simplicity with...
...Though Foster keeps his wife in surprising style for a poor tunesmith, Andrea Leeds plays Mrs. Stephen Foster with a suitably pained expression which becomes quite anguished when she suddenly ups and leaves him. It turns out that those two or three decorous benders audiences have seen the composer on were cinemevidences of alcoholism...
...basketball the Big Green lost four key men from the 1939 championship team--Bob Macleod Joe Cottone, Joe Batchelder, and Roger Dudis. The sextet will miss eight men, including its high scorers, Dave Walsh and Bud Foster, and its outstanding goalie, Wes Goding, from what Ed Jeremiah, coach, calls the greatest hockey unit ever to graduate from Dartmouth. The swimmers also lost several key men, including Julian Armstrong, best free-styler on the squad, Irving Stein and Bob Cushman...
Climax of the 30-odd scientific papers was a poetic paean to the hypothalamus, presented by famed Cornell Neurologist Foster Kennedy. Said...