Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make things interesting, the fledgling coach decided to move the veteran catcher of the 1937 squad, George Black-wood, to short while installing himself as catcher, to be better able to keep an eye on his team. Tom Bilodean and Dick Walsh were pitching for the first year men, but in spite of their skill the former mentor of the team managed to garner two hits out of his four times...
...Politicians, Teachers, and Schoolbooks" are surveyed with a practised eye by P. A. Knowlton, the editor of the Educational department of the MacMillan Company. Citing the havoc which politicians, the public, and teachers themselves wreak upon schoolbooks by false economy and attempts to make texts conform to local or professional prejudices, Mr. Knowiton suggests very convincingly the need for a reform of his evil which has been a part of free education since its inception...
...Eye Opener: Briey...
...Francisco is traditionally a good newspaperman's town. Many a crack newshawk got his start there. Many another wishes he might work there. Last week in city rooms all over the land, newsmen kept one eye cocked on San Francisco. A big story was about to break. Not a line had appeared in the news columns of the daily Press, but practically every editor, reporter and desk man knew about it. It was to be the first test of the potency of the American Newspaper Guild. The villain of the story was William Randolph Hearst...
...Government's power to impose codes on an unwilling industry. Wolf. Last year President Roosevelt went before the fearful Chambermen in person to explain his ideas of a partnership between Government and Business. The Chamber promptly plumped for self-regulation under the Government's watchful eye, but few of the delegates foresaw how close and intimate that partnership was to be. Yet if U. S. businessmen had occasionally found the partnership irksome so had President Roosevelt. Last week he wrote the Chamber a letter in polite but plain English. Excerpts: "In the main, American businessmen have cooperated patriotically...