Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When I read Louis Raemaekers' statement in the Sept. 30 issue of TIME, I didn't think much of it. But a half hour ago I read mild, kindly Mrs. Foster's letter in the Oct. 28 issue, and I've been thinking of it ever since...
...interested in the statement following Mrs. Marie T. Foster's intriguing letter, that "more people in the South want to go to war with Germany than in any other part of the U. S." I had suspected that this might be the case, for it seems very logical that it should be so. (I am only surprised that the percentage [24%] should be as low as it is.) I do not base this opinion on the fact that the South is still more purely Anglo-Saxon than any other part of the country, and would therefore have the strongest...
Meanwhile, in the absence of any more formalized official price policy, price theorists have been making a private Babel of the subject. Among them: Hugh Johnson, Dr. William Trufant Foster of the Pollak Foundation, Economist Frank Ashmore Pearson (of Cornell's once famed goldbug team of Warren and Pearson), Brookings Institution's Harold G. Moulton, Brookings' Charles O. Hardy, whose Wartime Control of Prices, written for the War Department, appeared last month...
...Baruch-aide General Hugh ("Old Ironpants") Johnson. Said he: "You can't stop a skyrocket advance in prices of everything merely by tying prices of a few things to the ground. There is only one way to do this job. That is by fiat. ..." William Trufant Foster was just as gloomy, told hardwaremen: "I was on the Consumers' Advisory Board of the NRA and found it was window dressing. . . . The Government can't control the price level and stop the upward spiral." But unlike Johnson, he concluded the Government should keep hands...
...MARIE T. FOSTER Weir, Miss...