Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talkies fail to print subtitles throughout the films. Hence deaf-mutes who dislike reading lips cannot understand all of the action...
...deaf-mutes who attended the convention of the 57-year-old organization last week danced to the music of a five-piece band, which they felt through their feet. They learned that the only "impostor" (a person of sound hearing who poses as deaf to cadge charitable upkeep) to appear during the past three years, one Charles Burton of Altoona. Pa., had been punished by law, then killed by a motorcar. They pointed with pride to the deaf-mutes who make high mark in the world today-Sculptor Elmer A. Hannon, Poet Howard Leslie Terry, blind Pianist Helen May Martin...
...Many states do not permit deaf-mutes to drive cars, unless they secure liability insurance. But insurance companies in some cases refuse to issue policies to deaf-mutes. Motioned President Kenner, quoting a National Safety Council decision: "There is no evidence that deaf people cannot drive safely; therefore our only object is to determine whether they know...
...Half the adult deaf-mutes of the U. S. cannot get work. Experience proves them specially capable as farmers, bookbinders, cabinetmakers, carpenters, compositors, Linotype operators, typesetters, electrotypers, seamstresses, milliners, typists, bookkeepers, accountants, machinists, painters, shoemakers, tailors. Testified deaf President Kenner: "As an employer, for the past 20 years, [I have] had occasion to utilize the services of hearing and deaf persons and found the latter equally satisfactory." He announced that the Federal Government will hire deaf operators of office machines, file clerks, copyists, typists...
...Only 10% of the teachers in schools for the deaf are deaf. Others hear and compel their pupils to try to speak. Those who learn, with few exceptions like President Kenner, enunciate in flat, dead tones. Gesticulated Rev. Warren M. Smaltz of Lebanon, Pa.: "One could wish that the thousand and one weird English dialects now imparted to deaf-mutes in school could, by some magic, be transformed into as many vocational skills. Certainly it is more socially desirable for deaf people to write their way through the world, than for them to be without means of livelihood...