Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pound class: Donald B. Armstrong, Jr. '37 (H) defeated Giles (C) by decision. Time...
Best that Trustee Armstrong could do in the way of witnesses was to call his own daughter, Mary Grace, who blithely contradicted her classmates, blamed Ward Van De Bogart for putting the flag in the coal...
...began last autumn at a Hallowe'en party in Pompey Hollow's snug little one-room schoolhouse, after the party rowdies stole a halyard from the school flagpole. Trustee Armstrong hung the flag in an alcove near a small oil stove where the pupils warmed their lunches. Worried lest the big flag catch fire, Miss De Lee took it down, pinned up a small one. Mr. Armstrong, infuriated, tore down the small flag, ordered the big one up again. Next day there was no flag at all and the small one was in the coal bin. "Hang...
...last week 15 of Pompey Hollow's 19 families had lined up with Miss De Lee, petitioned the State Department of Education to remove their trustee. For his part, Mr. Armstrong bolstered his case by a new list of grievances. Miss De Lee had been insubordinate. She recited the wrong version of the Lord's Prayer. She forbade the singing of "America." She arrived late and slept during school hours. She kept animals in the schoolroom. She taped the lips of naughty pupils...
...once had his lips taped for whispering, fell sound asleep. Star witness was Ward's big brother Edward. "What did your brother do after the plaster was put on his lips?" Edward was asked. "He started studying," replied the witness. Loyal pupils testified that Trustee Armstrong himself had placed the small flag in the coal bin, that they had not recited the oath of allegiance regularly since Miss De Lee left. Tightly clasping an American Beauty rose, Miss De Lee took the stand to deny that she was a Communist, quote from a teachers' syllabus in defense...