Word: bernard
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...which teaches Grades 5 through 8). "We want a black principal and black teachers for our black children," one mother shouted through a loudspeaker outside the school. On opening day, other, quieter Negro mothers led their children to the school and were turned back by Negro pickets. School Superintendent Bernard Donovan compromised, agreed that a neighborhood council could "screen" school personnel, even though the city school board cannot legally delegate its hiring and firing powers to laymen...
Wall Street's bulls like to joke that "no Fifth Avenue mansions have been built by bears." The bulls are wrong. Though most investment profits have indeed been made on upswing, Bernard Baruch bagged one of his first fortunes by bearishly selling short in Amalgamated Copper in 1901, and Joseph P. Kennedy earned more than $1,000,000 by short-selling in 1929-30. Among the other famous bears who got into the honey in the Depression were Tom Bragg and "Sell 'em Ben" Smith. One day Smith picked up a phone to make a call, but Bragg...
...LIFE WITH CHAPLIN by Lita Grey Chaplin. 325 pages. Bernard Geis...
...acting, too, is generally skillful, but occasionally overdone. Edward Zang's cynical Scandal is always restrained yet his open disdain for the slithery lawyer Buckram (Bernard Wurger) is still as funny as anything in the show. Wurger himself smoothly handles a three minute conversation from a blackhatted Puritan lawyer to a shyly drunk self-acknowledged stud. Gerald McGonagill as the addled astrologer Foresight, when calm, is also entertaining...
...York City's Superintendent Bernard Donovan sent recruiters south to hire 60 Negroes displaced by the closing of Negro schools under integration plans, and got 2,000 other teachers by offering inexperienced B.A. holders free summer education courses at N.Y.U...