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...been made solely on grounds of teaching capacity and scholarly ability." Skeptical friends of Instructors Walsh and Sweezy thought differently. Walsh, a baldish, handsome nephew of Montana's late Senator Thomas J., has been a member of Harvard's economics department since 1929, when he graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin. Gaunt young Instructor Sweezy, a Harvardman of the Class of 1929 and onetime president of the Daily Crimson, entered the economics department in 1934 after studying on Harvard fellowships in England and Austria. It was Instructor Walsh who, two years ago, organized the American Federation of Teachers...
...Flood; of leg injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile; in Windber, Pa. Died, Samuel E. Hill, 70, onetime traveling salesman who 38 years ago in Boscobel, Wis., with John H. Nicholson, laid the foundation for the Christian Commercial Travelers' Association (Gideons); of heart disease; in Beloit,Wis. (seep...
...average cost of $1, today boast that sooner or later they find donations to fulfill all requests with neat volumes now bound in whiskey-proof keratol. Until last week all three founders were still active in business and Gideon affairs. Then Death came to Samuel Eugene Hill, 70, in Beloit, Wis. To the funeral went Insurance Man Knights, 83, of Wild Rose, Wis., and John H. Nicholson, 75, now field secretary for the Gideons...
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Blue-eyed, genial William Johnson is the first native Chicagoan to become superintendent since the post was created in 1854. Son of a Danish grocer, he swept high-school classrooms, did odd jobs, saved enough money to go to Beloit College where, as an assistant in the chemistry laboratory, he "mixed the drinks for the boys to analyze." Switching to Northwestern, he studied education, had a rapid succession of jobs that landed him in Chicago as an elementary-school principal. When he asked for a high-school principalship last year, the Board of Education made him assistant superintendent...