Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theophilus Joseph, Negro, is a Harlem elevator man. His wife Henrietta works in a laundry. She wants their 19-year-old foster-son Ronald to follow his foster-father's footsteps and run an elevator. Ronald is not unwilling, but he hopes that perhaps the world holds for him something more purposeful than an elevator. Ronald's reason: last week he had 60 watercolors, charcoal and crayon drawings ?athletes in action, ships in dock?on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He had been singled out as the most promising current artist product of New York City...
...Morgan Foster Larson, Governor of New Jersey LL.D...
Instigator of the Winnipeg meet & show was the Winnipeg Flying Club. It is one of 16 local Canadian clubs, whose members have flown approximately 10,000 hours since 1927, when the Canadian Department of National Defence first started to foster them. The Government gives planes, engines and cash to clubs which provide their own flying fields, hire an instructor and air engineer, and have at least 30 members prepared to qualify as pilots (not less than ten must already be qualified). For every member who qualifies, the flying club gets $100 more. And if the club later buys planes...
...shocking in so famed a Liberal. Incorporated early in the present year, United Corp. was formed as a holding company for the Morgan, Drexel, Bonbright and American Superpower holdings in United Gas Improvement, Public Service Corp. of New Jersey, and Mohawk Hudson Power Corp. The company was designed to "foster closer relations between the great public utility systems of the east"-i. e., to promote utility mergers and consolidations. What would Brown Derby think? How could the Nation approve? It must be conceded, however, that Investor Broun has doubtless profited tidily on his 25 shares of United Corp., which, starting...
...scholarships, established in 1925 by the Commonwealth Fund of New York, of which Edward S. Harkness is president, are similar to the Rhodes Scholarships and were inaugurated in order to give British students an opportunity to study in America and to foster good will between the United States and Great Britain...