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...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...
...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...
...Pulitzer Prize while still a Guggenheimer (TIME. May 9); his Fellowship is renewed this year. Another repeater is moody George Antheil, cacophonous composer. Other winners: Artists Emil Ganso. Louis Bouche and Miguel Covarrubias (who will paint in the Dutch East Indies); Sculptress Gwen Lux; Poets e. e. cummings, Louise Bogan; Biographer Matthew Josephson; Novelists Glenway Wescott. Leonard Ehrlich: Composer Paul Nordoff; Economists Henry Schultz and Charles Frederick Roos; historians, physicists, chemists, biologists...
Chicago's Better Business Bureau moved last week to clear its city of a bad public name. Enrolled were 700,000 schoolboys to defend Chicago from its defamers during Boys' Week next month. Exclaimed Superintendent of Schools Bogan: "The present generation of Chicagoans needs a baptism of the pride and loyalty that built the World's Fair in '93 and carried the glories of the city to the far corners of the earth...