Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Theater (Thurs. 9 :30 p.m., NBC). Protect Her Honor, with Lloyd Nolan...
...superintendent of the Los Angeles school system, Alexander Stoddard has been fighting a losing battle. Each fall he finds himself with 10-20,000 new students-and without enough teachers to take care of them. A few months ago Stoddard worked out a plan, submitted it to the Ford Foundation and promptly got a promise of a $335,000 grant...
...Hearst Herald & Express the plan seemed a part of a plot: Stoddard, it said, "is trying to put over a new type of teacher training which might .wreck the academic . . . future of a lot of our kiddies." As for the Ford Foundation, it too was suspect: its former president, Paul Hoffman, had caused no end of trouble backing a UNESCO teaching program. "Pink Socialism." cried the paper. "Hoffman is out of the Ford Foundation, but his spirit is still there...
...relief, the board voted to drop the whole idea. Mused the Los Angeles Mirror: "They shout 'shortage of teachers' and then turn down a ... grant . . . which would have added 90 teachers a year to the Los Angeles public school staff . . . Some 100 other American cities have accepted Ford Foundation grants without being contaminated...
...Said the Ford Foundation's Robert Hutchins: "The patriotism of the Los Angeles school board was so intense that it developed an X-ray eye that enabled it to see Henry Ford II, Benson Ford, Donald David of the Harvard School of Business, and the other men who dominate the Ford Foundation as Communist agents...