Word: croxton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keep the children in school!" was the warning three weeks ago of Frederick Cleveland Croxton, assistant to Generalissimo Walter Sherman Gifford in President Hoover's Unemployment Relief Organization (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner of New York pointed out that 1,000,000 children under 16 were estimated to be holding jobs, that in 1930 some 103,000 14-and-15-year-olds left school to work. "That is a condition which ought not to continue...
Generalissimo Gifford crossed many another new bridge last week, however, as he started up relief machinery. Constantly at his elbow, explaining, coaching, advising, was big-bespectacled Fred Croxton, who had been acting chief of the defunct Emergency Committee for Employment. After Assistant Croxton showed Director Gifford the ropes, he departed for West Virginia to inspect distress in the coal mines where the State said it was unable to give relief. Another Croxton idea: Letters to 26.000 school superintendents throughout the land urging them to keep their older pupils at their desks and out of competition with men who really need...