Word: ackley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Homer Macauley (Mickey Rooney) is a 14-year-old Postal Telegraph boy, "the fastest-moving thing in San Joaquin valley." He supports his fatherless family, runs the 220 low hurdles in school, is fresh to his history teacher and fights with a snob, one Hubert Ackley III. After school, Homer learns to be a man. His teachers are his boss, benevolently eccentric Tom Spangler (James Craig), and old Grogan (Frank Morgan) the telegrapher, who drinks every night to forget the sad messages that come over his wire. Freckled, four-year-old Ulysses (Jack Jenkins), called "Useless" for short...
Professors Shapley and Menzel along with Professor Ernest M. Patterson of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, made separate analyses of the Ackley trial, the first of the Education Board's trials in City College cases...
...barked: "Schappes undoubtedly has forgotten." Mr. Canning spent two full days refreshing Mr. Schappes's memory. (Retorted Schappes: "An impostor!") Testifying that he himself had been a member of the Communist unit for two years, Canning named 50 fellow members, among them the college registrar, John Kenneth Ackley, known in the party as Jake. About one-half of one per cent of the 30,000 students and four per cent of the 1,400 college staff members were Communists, he said...