Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among other U. S. members of the group: John R. Mott, Foreign Relations Expert John Foster Dulles, Professor Georgia E. Harkness of Mount Holyoke College, Professor Charles G. Fenwick of Bryn Mawr (Roman Catholic internationalist, present as a technical adviser...
...family (two sons) Herbert Clark Hoover added a foster son, one Ramon Garcia Alvarez, 11, whom the ex-President will support at a cost of $9 a month in a Spanish refugee colony near Biarritz, France...
...long & loud that 63 years later the Virginia Conservation Commission wanted it made Virginia's official State anthem. Few singers of the song knew or cared who wrote it. If the question ever came up, someone usually said it was one of famed U. S. Songwriter Stephen Foster's (Swanee River, Oh! Susanna! etc.). Fame never caught up with black Songwriter Bland, but death did: in 1911 he was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave in a corner of Merion, Pa.'s scrubby little Negro cemetery...
...them today either unpublished or unidentified. The best of them (Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, In the Morning by the Bright Light, In the Evening by the Moonlight, etc.) stood high in the list of bestsellers. Today's music connoisseurs are beginning to call Bland "the Negro Stephen Foster," to rate him after Foster as the second greatest U. S. writer of Southern songs. During his lifetime, Minstrel Bland called himself, more modestly, "the best Ethiopian song writer in the world...
Sweden's greatest song writer was Carl Michael Bellman (1740-95). To Swedes Bellman's ballads are as familiar as Stephen Foster's are in the U. S. Year ago Hendrik Willem van Loon, literary journeyman, heard some, resolved to investigate the "Anacreon of the North," the "Last of the Troubadours." Last year van Loon and Grace Castagnetta, U. S. pianist spent five months in Sweden, acquainting themselves with Bellman's background and with the Swedish language which, in his songs, is almost untranslatably idiomatic. This week they published the result: 20 songs, with piano accompaniment...