Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equally persuasive. He signed with British President of the Board of Trade Oliver Stanley a joint memorandum outlining New Zealand's future trade policy in which Great Britain recognizes New Zealand's necessity for reducing imports, approves the methods adopted. For her part, New Zealand promises to foster Anglo-New Zealand trade, assures Great Britain that no uneconomic industries will be protected. Most important, Britain granted New Zealand $45,000,000 in credits ($25,000,000 to be spent on defense, $20,000,000 on imports of heavy machinery and raw materials) and the Bank of England converted...
...year-old Frankie Parker (né Pajkowski), the sensational Milwaukee ball boy who rose to No. 2 ranking in 1936, clinched the Davis Cup for the U. S. in 1937, slumped last year after marrying his foster mother, Mrs. Mercer Beasley, and this year-cannier, more confident, and equipped with a new forehand-has shown promise of returning to his top-notch form...
...than the right of asylum in a foreign embassy or legation. In the topsy-turvy politics of South America no statesman can tell from one day to the next when the wheel of political fortune is going to turn violently against him. It is only practical that he should foster the tradition which provides him a soft spot on which to light in the event of an explosion...
...accustomed to find in the press, the Courant is now omitting to mention in its obituary columns the nature of the disease or ailment to which death was attributable. . . . If we can make through the policy here announced a small contribution to the peace of mind of those who foster gloomy predictions we shall be well satisfied...
...telephone bill, she had a committee organized-Red-fearing Laborites William Green and Matthew Woll, Redbaiting Dean William Russell of Columbia University Teachers College, TVA's Foe Wendell Willkie. Soon contributions trickled in (from $1 to $1,000) for a radio venture called U. S. Drama, Inc., to foster 15 (time free) programs dedicated to preserving "the true spirit of Americanism . . . the blessing of free initiative...