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...into their classrooms. Des Moines' two big sister dailies, the Register and the Tribune, recently offered Iowa teachers $500 in prizes for ideas on "How to Use the Daily Newspaper in the Schools." Out of the suggestions received, the Register & Tribune culled the best for publication in a 4O-page booklet.* By last week Iowa teachers, principals and professors had written in for some 7,500 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Iowa Ideas | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

King Features announced a 4O-installment version of The Short Bible, abbreviated, rearranged and done into modern English by Professors Edgar J. Goodspeed and J. M. P. Smith of the University of Chicago (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Press Revival | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...embassies and legations was badly snarled by the Five & Ten. The State Department ruled that non-diplomatic truck drivers were liable to be arrested, and advised foreign representatives to drive their own trucks. Sixty cases of fine wines and liquors consigned to the Siamese legation started the 4O-mile trip in a U. S. truck, with U. S. drivers, accompanied by Luang Debavadi, third secretary of the legation. A block from the destination, Washington police raided the truck, arrested the U. S. drivers under the Five & Ten law, but later drove the truck on to the legation, helped unload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The Five & Ten | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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