Word: denver
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Last week it was a woman's turn to be president of the National Education Association. One candidate, Caroline Woodruff of Vermont, arrived in Denver for the N. E. A. convention with a carload of maple syrup. Another candidate's followers rolled into Denver on a noisy "Annie Carlton Woodward Special" from Massachusetts. Annie Carlton Woodward's demagogic platform: "Elect a Classroom Teacher." Candidates Woodruff, Woodward and Agnes Samuelson of Iowa settled down to a week of strategic breakfasts, luncheons, teas...
...principals and superintendents. But currently pedagogs are deeply troubled. Last year's N. E. A. convention dropped the stock squabble to unite on one proposition: the Federal Government should subsidize needy schools. Last week that issue was still near the top of the 12,000 teacherish minds at Denver. Keynoted Professor Jesse Homer Newlon of Teachers College, Columbia...
...Academic Freedom was their own concrete cause against arbitrary superintendents, corrupt school boards. Professor John Kelley Norton tickled fancies with a proposal that the nation's teachers unite with parents and workingmen of goodwill to hold the national balance of political power. In that Coughlinesque idea the scary Denver Post professed to see the birth of "the Pedagogic Party . . . through which Columbia University of New York aspires to control and run the whole United States...
Chief distinction of My Life on the Frontier is its spectacular version of an old Western childhood. When Miguel Antonio Otero was a boy his father was a commission merchant, following the Kansas-Pacific Railroad as it was being built into Denver. He moved his business and family from wild Ellsworth, Kans., to wilder Hays City, where little Miguel saw Wild Bill Hickok kill one man, heard stories of his killing three more. He moved them from wicked Sheridan to the hunters' paradise of Kit Carson, at a time when Indians harried construction crews, burned bridges, sometimes attacked trains...
...last desperate effort to educate his sons, Merchant Otero sent them to Notre Dame, again to St. Louis University, where they enjoyed the city but did not attend classes. When 19-year-old Miguel returned to New Mexico, armed warfare had broken out between the Santa Fe and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroads, fighting for the Chicken Creek Route in strategic Raton Pass. Still quarreling with his father's partner, Miguel left the company, visited Denver, saw Leadville at the peak of its boom, became a member of the Chaffee Light Artillery of Colorado and served during the railroad...