Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idaho Democrats gathered at St. Anthony first thought they would not put up a candidate to oppose Senator Borah, largely because nobody wanted such an empty nomination. Then they changed their mind, named John Tyler of Emmett for the Senate. Nominee Tyler, 55, a grade school teacher turned farmer and smalltown politician, declared: "If elected, I will not be found voting with the Republicans as Borah has been with the Democrats." Democrats nominated for Governor G. Ben Ross, Mayor of Pocatello...
...bushel. The mill quotations on standard flour, Omaha in car lots, for that date was $6.50 per barrel. Bran, $27.50 per ton and shorts $33.50 per ton. Last Friday, Aug. 8, 1930, the Chicago option was 96 ½? per bushel. The mill quotations were on standard grade flour, $4.70 per barrel. Kran $24 per ton semi shorts, $27 per ton. On Aug. 2, 1930, Chicago option, 86^½?. Omaha cash 76?to 80? per bushel. Mill quotations, Omaha standard flour, $4.30 per barrel semi bran $19 per ton semi shorts $23 per ton. Every day the flour quotations...
...poor and unequal pay, a bad promotion system. After the strenuous four years of instruction at Annapolis, an ensign receives $1,500 a year, $699 allowances, or about the pay of a District of Columbia policeman. After seven years in the service, he may be promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) with a total salary of $2,899. These rates are based on the military pay law of 1908, as revised by War bonuses and the hastily passed law of 1922. In 1929 a pay board representing the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard determined that while living costs since...
...following 22 States and the District of Columbia no public school moppet need spend a penny for books in the grade schools: Arizona, California, Delaware, Maine, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming...
Foreign delegates to the convention envied U. S. facilities for teaching the deaf. The U. S. is the only country providing a high grade college for the deaf (Gallaudet College at Washington). Graduates have successfully followed advanced courses at Johns Hopkins, George Washington, McGill, Pennsylvania and California universities, have become teachers, home managers, printers, publishers, farmers, businessmen, chemists, ministers, athletic directors...