Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Before refugee children could enter the U. S. in large numbers, there remained much red tape to be cut. Admittance of a child requires two affidavits from its prospective foster parents: that they are 1) willing & ready, 2) financially able to give the child a home. Knottiest red tape was the U. S. immigration law, which admits 65,721 British immigrants a year but sets a 6,572-per-month maximum...
...Over 300 other money-raising outfits collected pennies, dimes, quarters, checks for war relief: Allied Relief Fund, Bundles for Britain, American Friends of France, Queen Wilhelmina Fund, Inc., Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, Le Paquet au Front...
...HENRY C. FOSTER...
...democratic thing, you know." Calculated to cultivate a more essential poise is Ogontz' popular course on babies, held in "Lares," a completely furnished model home. Each fall, the girls study, coddle and raise a two-month-old foundling until Easter, when it goes back to its mother or foster parent. Last year's baby was Betty Jones, whom the girls dubbed "Betty Jogontz...
...layman, there was something decidedly vulture-like in such a view. The neurologists' retiring president, Foster Kennedy, pitched into this airy position on other grounds...