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...retired Chicago inner-city teacher and principal, I have long felt that conscripting high school dropouts in national service might reduce gang activity. Perhaps we should send teens who quit school to training camps that, like F.D.R.'s Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, would be far from cities so that gang ties would be cut. Do we need help in the national forests with multiple projects...
...glad it was handled in such an amicable way,” London said. “I don’t think this would have happened in the 1930s. Harvard has come a long...
...failed its first big test--the bank runs of the early 1930s, which it allowed to snowball into the Great Depression. After that, tight domestic regulations and global exchange-rate controls kept financial-market panics at bay for decades, essentially by keeping markets themselves at bay. But when the exchange controls and bank regs proved too inflexible in the 1970s, markets made a comeback...
When Manoj Patel's family bought the Wigwam Motel in Rialto, Calif., four years ago, the iconic Route 66 property was rundown. Its stucco teepees, built in the 1930s by Kentucky motor-inn visionary Frank Redford, had been frequented by drug addicts and prostitutes because the Wigwam's previous owners tried to reel in customers with a cheesy sign urging them to DO IT IN A TEE PEE. The Patels, who left India for the U.S. in 1980, worked hard to restore the motel to its former glory and added some modern amenities, including free wi-fi access. Says...
...movie chronicles the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a 1930s-era professor at Wiley College, located in Marshall Texas. In 1935, Thompson led a recently-formed debate team made up of Wiley students to a win over Harvard in the national championship...