Word: bogan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with instant death to all on board and immediate sinking of the ship's shattered hull in water a mile deep and alive with sharks. One was caught nearby a few days later with a man's bones in his belly. Said Avocet's Chief Boatswain Bogan: "Bits of wood and paper covered the sea. . . . They seemed to be fragments from the interior of the plane. All the pieces were from one to six inches square. We found nothing larger than that...
...educators, however, feel any strong urge to rule it. Peppery, fox-bearded Superintendent William McAndrew (1924-28), born in Ypsilanti, Mich., was constantly bedeviled as a "stool pigeon of King George" by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill'') Thompson's "America First" campaign. His successor, William Joseph Bogan (1928-36), spent most of his term in the morass of teachers' "payless paydays." Last week Chicago's Board of Education, looking for a successor to Superintendent Bogan, who died in March, chose his assistant, William Harding Johnson...
Among the leaders slated to be present for a conference on principles, problems, and trends in vocational education are Dr. J. C. Wright, assistant U. S. commissioner for vocational education; Robert O. Small, director of vocational education in Massachusetts; and Dr. William J. Bogan, superintendent of Chicago public schools...
...Army during the War. Afterwards he worked in a publishing office, on the staff of Travel Magazine, was an executive editor of The New Yorker, a member of the staff of FORTUNE, now does free-lance writing. A respected poet in his own right, he married Poetess Louise Bogan in 1925, is the author of a biography of Lincoln and of two detective stories which were published under a carefully-guarded pseudonym...
...Chicago last April sex-curious George Rogalski, 14, lured Dorette Zietlow, 2½, into an abandoned icehouse, stripped her and left her there to die. Chicago's Superintendent of Schools William J. Bogan promptly announced that he was going to have the dark little minds of all Chicago's "problem children'' plumbed by psychoanalysis (TIME, April 23). By last week he was not far along with his plan. "The big difficulty," explained Dr. Daniel P. MacMillan, director of child study and guidance, "is educating the principals to pick out defective cases...