Word: dransfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the Depression, many a school board slashed salaries which teachers believed were guaranteed by contract. The West New York, N. J. Board of Education in 1933 ordered reductions ranging from 10% to 15%. Principal J. E. Dransfield of Hudson Heights Grammar School has since been conducting a "friendly" legal campaign for 95 of his fellow West New York teachers to determine whether their contracts were binding under the State's Tenure Law of 1909. The cuts were last week finally upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled: "The Act of 1909 . . . was but a regulation...