Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many eyes, a crackpot movement quarantined in a handful of private schools. Today it covers much more territory. Now predominantly a public-school affair. Progressive Education has strongholds in the suburbs of greater New York. Chicago and Los Angeles, is transforming such major public school systems as those of Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Detroit. No U. S. school has completely escaped its influence...
...Pacific has 1,207 miles of road, a main line running from Oakland Mole, Calif. to Salt Lake City and from Keddie to Bieber, Calif., where it connects with the Great Northern And Western Pacific's holding company, Western Pacific R. R. Corp., has a half interest in Denver & Rio Grande Western. It thus forms a link in a direct route from St. Louis to the Pacific...
...public-school superintendents throughout the U.S. a report, Occupational Adjustment. They proposed that public schools adopt a three-point program to: 1) guide, 2) train, 3) place students in the right jobs. First step, said the superintendents, is to make up-to-date, realistic studies of occupations. In Denver, for example, the schools surveyed the baking industry, found what kinds of workers were employed, how many were likely to be needed, even what nationalities were preferred by employers...
...these men who came with dollars from Denver or Minneapolis the Red Cross yesterday offered a bargain. For ten dollars it will not give them a pair of imported trousers, but to another American citizen, destitute through no fault of his own, it will give food, shelter, security and rehabilitation. An Act of God has placed 50,000 people in need of this aid, and it will be given. Harvard will help...
...Colorado, Senator Alva B. Adams (80% New Dealer lightly marked for Purging) was nominated without opposition. His opponent in November: Republican Archibald A. Lee of Denver. Renominated for Governor was crude Democrat Teller Ammons, to face Republican Ralph L. Carr...