Word: finds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said he was "shocked" to find this "concerted effort" to collect the money. "No decent citizen can but fail to be aroused over this effort which violates the spirit if not the letter, of the statutes of Massachusetts aimed at preventing public employees from being coerced into contributing to a political campaign and making it a criminal offense for persons to be involved in such an effort...
Hardly responsible was Popularizer Roosevelt for a less fortunate innovation in Green Bay, Wis. So interseted ina lecture she was giving were two women who collected admissions at the door that they welcomed the offer of two unidentified men to take over their duties, returned to find the men had walked off with the evening's receipts, which Mrs. Roosevelt had intended for charity...
Thus, having had their interest aroused by Indian blankets a teacher has brought into their classroom, pupils may decide to study Indians. They form committees, go to libraries, museums, parks to find out what Indians ate, where and how they lived. Later they report to their classmates, build tepees, write and produce plays. In the same way they study boats, farming, Egypt. In doing so they have been learning to read, write, count, multiply...
...doing calisthenics, they play games. Result of all this is that a modern Progressive school is noisy, apparently chaotic, but pupils are too busy to be naughty. When they are naughty or sulky, they are sent not to a be-ferruled principal but to a psychiatrist, who tries to find out what is wrong at home...
...with Boss Hague. The occasion was a rally for the Senate candidacy of William Harvey Johnson Ely, who has been administering WPA in New Jersey and who, though a Hague protege, has promised to be a 100% New Dealer. Secretary Woodring's business with Boss Hague was to find out whether, in return for continued control over WPA and generous Federal patronage, Boss Hague would really turn out his Hudson County vote for Mr. Ely. Boss Hague's answer was to show Secretary Woodring a mammoth, slam-bang political jamboree for Candidate Ely in the Jersey City armory...