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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are 29,000,000 U. S. public schoolchildren, but the Speyer School is the only U. S. public school for children mentally gifted.* It was created in Manhattan in February 1936 by the city's Board of Education and Columbia's Teachers College, and since that time grey-haired, motherly Professor Leta Stetter Hollingworth has carefully guarded her brood from the adulatory and meddlesome attentions of the public. But this week, entranced by the educational message in a series of unposed candid-camera pictures of her 8 t011-year-old charges taken during the past few months...
Thus aligned against their Board of Education for the first time, half of Chicago's teachers were embarked on an ambitious crusade, in which the restoration of the merit system was only one aim. Still suffering from a 22% pay cut, the teachers were out to gain the salary restorations that nearly every other major U. S. city has already made to teachers. They were out also to repair the butchery of the Chicago school system-denounced by such Titans in education as University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins and Dean Charles Hubbard Judd -which...
...Beverly Hills. Victor McLaglen (see p. 40) is Colonel of the Victor McLaglen Light Horse Troop, whose 750 members finance their maneuvers partly by promoting rodeos and midget auto races. Ralph Bellamy and Charles Farrell own the Racquet Club at Palm Springs. Minor promoters include Johnny Weissmuller (the paddle-board concession at Catalina Island) and Errol Flynn (six day bicycle races...
...Securities & Exchange Commission and one-time Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy. Though no connection was admitted by those involved, within two days the New Deal took a step for which brokers and bankers had clamored since the stockmarket smash began over ten weeks ago. Without offering explanation, the Federal Reserve Board reduced margin requirements for stock purchases from...
...level was established by the Reserve Board in February 1936 when the Dow-Jones industrial averages stood at a healthy 147 and Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles detected a tendency for brokers' loans to mushroom. Since then the Dow-Jones industrial averages have risen slowly to 194.40, and fallen sharply back to an unhealthy 125.73. By last week, the contraction of prices had reduced the equity of so many traders below 55% that, according to Frazier Jelke & Co., at least half the margin accounts were "restricted" (i.e., not eligible for new transactions which would increase the margin deficiency...