Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strikers one E. F. Foster presented a petition asking for the repeal of the taxicab ordinance. He said 50,000 names were signed...
...were potent Fundamentalists, who have long fought to keep Princeton one of the few remaining strongholds of ancient evangelical doctrine. Last week the Princeton Fundamentalists met in Philadelphia, made plans to secede from Princeton, to found a new seminary to teach the ideals which Princeton would presumably no longer foster. More than 70 professors, preachers and elders attended. Prominent of course were Princeton faculty conservatives. Dr. John Gresham Macheru veteran of Princeton's doctrinal wars, made the opening address, said: "The old Princeton under this new board is doomed." Prof. Robert Dick Wilson told of the call from students...
...Foundry Co. From 1915 to 1917 he was a Morgan Man (export division), then spent a year as president of Schloss Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. on the Executive Committee of which he still serves. He has written on many an industrial topic, has been recently engaged with William T. Foster on a study of the Reserve Board v. Wall Street situation. Whenever Mr. Catchings can catch some leisure from his business cares, he travels to his Lake Placid log cabin...
Born in Dominica, West Indies, a charwoman's son, Artist Joseph was adopted by his foster-parents at the age of one. He stayed in the West Indies for eleven years. From an early age he drew, told other children what was wrong with their drawings, bought penny crayons. At eleven he was taken to Manhattan, where he attended a public grammar school. His drawing teacher encouraged him to continue at Stuyvesant High School, where Dr. Henry E. Fritz conducts special Saturday drawing classes and arranges an annual Metropolitan exhibit for the 30 most talented children (15 boys, 15 girls...
...Morgan Foster Larson of New Jersey is making substantial repairs to his summer home at Seagirt, N. J. Reason: Last week an airplane piloted by William Taft, Red Bank, N. J., zoomed into the roof, pierced it, stopped with its nose four feet from the empty gubernatorial bed. Greatly alarmed was the Governor's mother, 86, who was about to enter the Governor's bedroom...