Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...struggle of youth to find an opening in private industry is becoming more acute each year. Claiming that public education has failed to prepare its graduates for their place in life, the Gulick report to the New York Board of Regents last fall favored the establishment of an eight year secondary school. In its work training units the National Youth Administration has recognized this same need to "educate towards employment...
According to the National Board of Review Magazine, "this is the best use of documentary films to record history, with historical intent, that we have seen. But it proves that history is not an abstract thing but something made by a an historian...
Following five weeks of continuous picketing, the Yellow Cab strikers yesterday won most of their points before the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation. All men will return to work today...
...other liberal ladies laid plans for a new museum. To head their organizing committee they chose A. Conger Goodyear, a solid, sensitive industrialist (lumber) with practical experience as a trustee of Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery. Mr. Goodyear knew a number of good men to have on the board of trustees, among them Harvard's eminent scholar and mentor of curators, Professor Paul Joseph Sachs. As Professor Sachs returned from a trip abroad in June 1929, Mr. Goodyear shook his hand and asked him to name the ablest candidate available for the directorship of a modern museum...
Meanwhile the Museum moved from its five rooms to five floors of a greystone mansion on 53rd Street, in view of the back windows of the Rockefeller home. Membership ($10 a year) shot up by leaps & bounds. The board of trustees became a galaxy of the enlightened rich. Greatest of many gifts were the Bliss collection of modern French paintings, a bequest for which the Museum raised an endowment of more than $600,000 in 1934, and Mrs. Rockefeller's collection in 1935. The Museum acquired an energetic executive director, Thomas Dabney Mabry Jr., an able assistant curator...