Word: bogan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criminal morons like George Rogalski. In the classroom George Rogalski had been clever, polite, attentive. His teachers had noticed nothing strange about him except that he sometimes teased smaller children. Last week George Rogalski was in jail, his name was in grisly headlines and Superintendent of Schools William Joseph Bogan, after voicing a wish that every one of Chicago's 500,000 schoolchildren could be psychoanalyzed, had ordered analysis for every pupil who seemed to his teachers abnormal or subnormal in any way. Early last week two small boys heard whimpering sounds in a deserted ice house...
...moving moment came when grey-haired Superintendent of Schools William J. Bogan unexpectedly rose to address the meeting. Able and popular, he had been ignored by the Board in preparing its economy order. Said he: "I forced myself on this program because I am living in terror of the effect of the economies on the public schools. As I study these economies hour after hour, day after day, my, terror grows...
Superintendent Bogan then proceeded to outline a substitute plan by which the disputed $4,000,000 could be saved, chiefly by still another two-week shortening of the school term, a payless week for teachers. But the audience, happily accepting Dean Judd's figures, would hear of no more school economies. Ignoring Superintendent Bogan, they adopted unanimously resolutions: 1) demanding that the Board rescind its order or resign; 2 & 3) calling on Mayor Kelly and Illinois' Governor Henry Horner to intervene; 4) extending "profound thanks and appreciation" to William Randolph Hearst and the editor of the Herald & Examiner...
...high-school principals from School Superintendent William J. Bogan went the word: "Hold the fort and suppress, as far as you can, any insurrection." At nonstriking Morgan Park, student R. O. T. C. members stood guard...
...still the biggest and most exciting school strike Chicago had ever seen. Next day the strikers were fewer in number, but distributed among a larger number of schools. The Chicago Parent-Teachers Association worked to quiet the pupils. Twenty-seven youths were arrested for inciting and picketing. Superintendent Bogan pointed out that anyone over 16 who interferes with school sessions may be fined $100, that parents of truants under 16 may be fined from $5 to $20. Superintendent Bogan blamed the strike on 1) Spring; 2) Communism. Two "agitators" named Yetta Barshefsky and Rudolph Lapp were discovered to be members...