Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Popeye in the flesh (of Actor Harry Foster Welch) stalked into the Washington office of Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations to the OPNAV he presented a belligerent self-portrait, to be used as official insignia for a new squadron of Navy bombers. Said the Admiral pridefully: "You have always been an inspiration to men in the Navy...
Historian Josephson is a former editor of The New Republic. In 1932 he strove in company with the League of Professional Groups to elect Communist William Z. Foster President. Outside of this, his firsthand experience of President-making is small. But what he lacks in experience he makes up in learning and distrust...
...leftist Artist Joe Hirsch learned left him stumped. Assigned to decorate the "F. & B." (fornication and bastardy) courtroom, he tore up sketch after sketch, exclaimed: "I can't cover that wall with bastards." Finally he painted panels relating to a child's security: an adopted bootblack; a foster father playing with a child; another helping a child up a ladder; a child trotting to school...
...most famed bands in the U. S., the Navy and the Marine, were out & about the country on their annual concert tours. Their programs made good listening for patriots. The Marine Band's Captain William F. Santelmann played nothing but U. S. music. His three programs contained Stephen Foster, Vic tor Herbert. Gershwin, Ferde Grofé, and some surprising items: band arrangements of a movement from Howard Hanson's Nordic Symphony, Jabberwocky from Deems Taylor's Through the Looking Glass suite, a rumba from Harl McDonald's Second Symphony...
Antiseptic Paint. After thousands of experiments, Dr. Foster Dee Snell, prolific Brooklyn industrial chemist, and Co-Worker Dr. Samuel Sidney Epstein announced production of a successful antiseptic paint-for children's rooms, breweries and bakeries, hospitals, food factories. They mix their paint with chlorine and iodine. After nine weeks on the wall it still kills typhoid and some other germs in the air, retains some antiseptic strength for six years. It is not so effective as sterilizing indoor air by ultraviolet radiation, but it is cheaper...