Word: ciceroism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pamphleteer Livesey. What everybody ought to know more about, he suggests in a forthcoming book; The Child, the Parent and the State (Harvard University; $3.50), is the history of a highly significant development -the transformation of the U.S. high school from 1905 to 1930. Those who thunder that Cicero molded young minds at the turn of the century are right. But Cicero's assassin was not John Dewey alone. It was a combination of child-labor laws, compulsory school attendance, the growing need for vocational training, and the Depression, which sent jobless teenagers scurrying to school for shelter...
...third share of the profits. Gestapo informers, who insisted on hard currency for their work outside Germany, also got paid off in the phony pounds. Among those doublecrossed: the Italians who found out where Mussolini was held before his rescue by Paratrooper Otto Skorzeny; the famous valet "Cicero" (real name: Eliaza Bazna), who stole secrets from the safe of the British Ambassador to Turkey. Ultimately, some of the counterfeit notes turned up in England. But only after duplications cropped up in serial numbers did the British realize what was happening...
Dean Monro will make the annual presentation of the Ames Awards, for selfreliance, character, and leadership, which were won this year by Paul E. Freehling of Kirkland House and Cicero, Ill., and Richard E. Rubenstein, of Adams House and Woodmere...
...Supreme Court's rulings resulted from two separate trials, one by an Illinois court, the other by a Federal court, given to three men. In 1953, a Federal court acquited Alfonse Bartkus of the charge of robbing a Federally insured bank in Cicero, Ill. An Illinois court then prosecuted him on the same charge and sentenced him to life imprisonment...
...Alfonse Bartkus, ex-convict, charged with robbing a federally insured Cicero savings and loan association in 1953, was found "not guilty'' in federal court, found guilty three weeks later in state court, sentenced to life imprisonment as a habitual criminal...