Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That extraordinary performance might have been seen in almost any Berkeley, Calif, public schoolroom last week. It was no joke to Berkeley citizens. After last year's Long Beach disaster a state survey commission found 19 of Berkeley's 21 schoolhouses wholly or partly unsafe...
...buildings totally condemned the Board moved 3,000 children. To house them it pitched $50,000 worth of big tents. Safe schools now run double shifts and all of Berkeley's 30,000 schoolchildren are on part time. Next week a committee of architects and engineers is to present a rebuilding program which the Board estimates will cost $4,000,000. It has applied to the Public Works Administration for 30% of this expenditure, expects to float a bond issue for the rest...
Meantime outraged Berkeley citizens have been meeting weekly in Citizens, Voters, Taxpayers and Economy Leagues to howl protest. Parents complain that their homes are upset by irregular school hours, that hygiene in tent-schools is bad, that the earthquake phobia is worse than earthquake...
...dress like customers' men and young women look fresh from Michigan Boulevard. Dancing and "dates" are far & away their favorite pastimes, followed by swimming, fencing, hockey. A Yaleman or Wellesley woman would feel strange in Urbana-Champaign for a while, but a student from Ann Arbor, Madison or Berkeley would be at home almost at once. Each would need to learn only a few names. Illinois' favorite soft-lighted booths for pairing off between classes, are at Hanley's and Prehn's. Favorite snacks are rich fudge squares called "Lukers," washed down by Coca-Cola. Beer...
Best Performance (actor): Leslie Howard in Berkeley Square, Charles Laughton in Henry the VIII, Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang...