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...four days last week, up to 20,000 of New York City's 212,000 high-school students deserted their classrooms for an unseemly orgy of picketing, riotous parading, catcalling and general defiance of the school board, Mayor O'Dwyer, and several hundred New York cops and truant officers. The only civic group that could conceivably have been pleased by all this were the demonstrators' teachers. And, in the circumstances, they were keeping their voices down...
When Mayor O'Dwyer decided to approve a $7,000,000 allocation to boost most high-school salaries by $250 a year, all other salaries by $150, the teachers shouted "pin money," and the boycott continued...
...police were caught a little off balance at first, but they threw up barricades, called reinforcements until they were 200 strong. The students jeered and whistled. "We Want Willie!" they chanted at Mayor O'Dwyer's windows. They waved posters with the legend "While student activities cease, we refuse to grant O'Dwyer peace," and shouted, "We want a raise for our teachers...
...bulk of the research librarian's work is done on stories like TIME'S cover on New York City's Mayor O'Dwyer. After receiving the 30 folders on O'Dwyer, the researcher called for everything on New York City. Told that that would mean some 800 folders, 50 books, and innumerable magazine articles, she revised her request somewhat. The research librarian selected a group of books he thought would be most valuable, sent along a batch of folders on finance, government, industries, etc., added some selected material from the periodicals file. As the story...
From Bohola-born Mayor Bill O'Dwyer down, New York's Irish seemed to think that Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, ought to be ashamed of himself. When he arrived in the U.S., 200 of them thronged out, under the leadership of a Brooklyn judge, to see that he was. When his plane arrived, they booed him lustily-partly for banning a Saint Patrick's Day parade in Londonderry, partly for representing the hated partition of Ireland, and partly for supporting the British Crown. "There'll Always Be An England While...