Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Federation's board of directors met in Chicago to lay plans for the next biennial convention, to be held in Baltimore next May. Inveterate resolvers, even when meeting in smaller groups, the Federationists, led by their doe-eyed national president, Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober last week resolved: 1) to encourage the singing of opera in the English language (see above), 2) to support the development of small local opera companies throughout the U. S., 3) to pay more attention to music in the rural schools, 4) to help the growth of orchestral music 5) to encourage...
...typical U. S. public school superintendent tolerates parents, submits to his school board but hates and fears his mayor. To him City Hall represents politics, and he feels much safer if the mayor cannot interfere with his salary, his budget or his educational program. With the cry "Keep politics out of the schools," superintendents, teachers and like-minded citizens have waged an increasingly successful campaign to make schools independent of city governments. Today, in nearly three-quarters of the 191 largest U. S. cities, school boards are elected directly by voters (the rest are appointed by mayors, city councils, judges...
Citing few specific facts to support their conclusions, Investigators Henry & Kerwin reported: "The politics with which the schools are beset at the present time are injected . . . just as frequently by school boards as by representatives of the legislative or executive branches of political government. In addition there are instances of tampering with the schools which involves collusion between the school board and a political machine. In fact, there is ground for the contention that an independent school board merely provides two possible sources of political interference instead...
...Wilbert E. Macfarlane. Thirty years a newspaperman, President Macfarlane is a rugged individualist of broadcasting. As advertising manager of the Tribune in 1927, he became WGN's executive head, refused to let networks dominate his station's policies. The other original partner station, WOR, gave MBS its board chairman, Alfred Justin McCosker. Breezy, back-slapping Chairman McCosker is a radio veteran among network heads. He joined WOR in 1923, became the station's director and general manager in 1926, president in 1933. A onetime newspaperman, Chairman McCosker held his first job as office boy to the late...
...punishing competition by selling out. Commonwealth's President Wendell Willkie wants to sell his integrated properties in one batch; TVA Director David Lilienthal wants to buy them piecemeal, using the threat of municipal competition with lower power rates to get his way. Thus the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga offered to buy the Chattanooga property of Mr. Willkie's Tennessee Electric Power Co., threatened to build its own plant unless he agreed. Last week, in a long letter to the board, Mr. Willkie deftly left the matter hanging, wound up with a pious hope: that the New Deal...