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...York City has 38,000 schoolteachers. Dr. Emil Altman is an excitable, potbellied little man who has charge of keeping tabs on their physical and mental condition. Few years ago he made national headlines when he charged that no fewer than 1,500 of the city's teachers were off their rockers, many of them "crackpots" (TIME, April 9, 1934). Ever since, Dr. Altman has tried with might & main to purge the crackpots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Peculiarities | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Last year Dr. Altman tried again. He called to his office for examination 250 teachers reported unfit by their principals. Only one who failed to appear was a 54-year-old high-school teacher named Mary B. C. Byrne, whose principal had accused her of "classroom peculiarities." Last fall the Board of Education found her guilty of insubordination, ordered her dismissed unless she submitted to examination or applied for retirement. She did neither, was dismissed. Thereupon Miss Byrne, like Mrs.D'Auria, filed an appeal. Last week Commissioner Graves ordered Miss Byrne reinstated. Furthermore, he ruled that the School Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Peculiarities | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Next day, a substitute teacher named Ellen S. Matthews marched into the office of Associate School Superintendent Jacob Greenberg, Dr. Altman's boss. Miss Matthews demanded a permanent job. Superintendent Greenberg explained the procedure for getting one. Suddenly Teacher Matthews seized an inkwell on his desk, let fly. Mr. Greenberg ducked. Teacher Matthews screamed, seized more inkwells, a lamp, whatever else happened to be handy, chucked them at nimble Mr. Greenberg. Police carried Miss Matthews off to Bellevue Hospital's psychopathic ward. Dr. Altman was not surprised. Said he: "It's a lucky thing she didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Peculiarities | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Long Beach, L. I., John Perillo stepped into an open elevator shaft, dropped 15 feet. He broke only his leg because he fell on the body of Charles Altman, who night before had fallen to his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fall | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...producer goods such as German chemicals, iron pipes, tools, wire, certain kinds of industrial machines. Results show most clearly in consumer goods like gloves, furs, toys. In Manhattan, with the biggest Jewish concentration in the U. S., Macy, Saks-Fifth Avenue, Gimbel Bros., Lord & Taylor, Franklin Simon, Bloomingdale, B. Altman and many other stores have stopped carrying German-made merchandise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Give & Take | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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