Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Far from taking the defensive, John Lewis was last week busy extending his long, long lines. Already launched under the friendly eye of his brother, Alma Denny Lewis, was a drive to organize 800,000 Federal Government employes, a move which brought an official frown from the Chief Executive of...
Shrewd enough as a card player to have invented the "Vanderbilt Convention" at contract bridge, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt is no less canny as a yachtsman. When he sold his old boat to Chandler Hovey and ordered a new one, yachtsmen were well aware that he and his famed designer, W...
So spoke venerable William Heard Kilpatrick, just retired by Columbia's Teachers College and now at Northwestern University, at the 75th or "diamond" convention of the National Education Association in Detroit last week. As 1,300 delegates and 12,000 vacationing NEA members crowded warmly into the Masonic Temple...
According to Adviser Reeves, the Federal Government spent over $21,800,000 to keep rural schools open in 1934 and 1935, loaned $84,271,000 through the PWA and spent another $213,832,000 outright for school buildings and repairs up to the end of 1936. The National Youth Administration...
The convention once more resolved to plump for the Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill, encouraged NEA's adult education section to strike Congress for another $25,000,000 to eradicate illiteracy.