Word: attack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these battle cries are not loud enough. A vital starting point for attack upon secondary schools are the college board exams. Every evil of the lower learning leads up to, and away from, these. The college boards condition the kind and amount of content taught in the schools, and thus mold the type of boy which the colleges for the most part receive. And the result is that the schools teach little useful for the college course, and only what the board exams will test. It is a bizarre fact that because of the board exams much of what could...
...appointment of a new committee to study methods of teaching in the secondary schools is a practical application of President Conant's announced desire for an attack on these school problems. At the present time there are two ways in which Harvard can approach the secondary school, one through the Dean's office and one through the School of Education. The present committee is a combination of the two, and through these media it can indirectly affect pre-college training...
...assortment of minor patriots condemn his client as a Red, a Jew, an alien. One condemner was rich, blonde Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling of Chicago, who based her Frankfurterphobia largely on his long membership in the American Civil Liberties Union (which once defended her right to attack the New Deal on the radio...
Then & there Harry Hopkins, cool and careful, took command of the situation. He met this attack on his weakest point with a drawling, good-humored retreat into modesty and sincerity, a patient implication that he knew this was a political trial. He let go several disarming bursts of frankness, several amusing lapses into sturdy slang. Said he: "If any one has had intimate experience with business in the last six years, it is I. I have bought and sold millions and millions of goods. I have negotiated with businessmen on hundreds and thousands of deals. I have always had employes...
...politician, Mrs. Bethune was in her glory last week. To her second National Conference on Problems of the Negro & Negro Youth came 125 delegates to urge abolition of poll taxes, attack discrimination against Negroes in the Army & Navy, TVA, Federal Housing Administration. To address the convention, in the Department of Labor auditorium, came Mrs. Bethune's friend, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Speaking as an "individual," Mrs. Roosevelt urged passage of the Anti-Lynching Bill which Southern Senators filibustered to death last year...