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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico City's Colegio Roosevelt,* twelve-year-old Guadalupe Hernandez had a composition to write. Like the rest of the pupils in the sixth grade, she would write on el Señor President Roosevelt, Mexico's gran amigo, on the first anniversary of his death (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Guadalupe did her twelve-year-old best...
...Trade Union Fellow doesn't have to meet any specific educational qualifications to gain entrance. He may have completed a college course, or he may not have completed grade school. The University desires unions to send men of intelligence and practical experience who are devoted to the labor movement and who expect to spend their careers in the service of labor. The best test of a man's qualifications, according to the Fellowship faculty, is a record of successful experience serving labor...
About the time Communist Karl Marx finished writing Das Kapital, Capitalist Charles Pratt began selling "Pratt's Astral Oil." A high-grade lamp fuel, refined in Brooklyn from Pennsylvania petroleum, it became world-famed. Until Edison made his improvement, no one could read the Communist Manifesto, or anything else, under a mellower light. Onetime grocery clerk Pratt eventually joined up in Standard Oil with onetime bookkeeper Rockefeller. When he died in 1891, Pratt was Brooklyn's richest citizen, a solid, sharp-faced, goateed, philanthropic Baptist. To his six sons and two daughters he left an 800-acre estate...
There are circuses of one, two and three rings. I run, or attempt to run, a three-ringer. Only there are no cages and no whips (whips would leave marks, anyway). I have 43 performers in my circus: eleven in the fifth grade, 14 in the fourth, 18 in the third. The total arena is 32 by 23 feet. Except for two or three third-graders, none of the little animals have had trainers. They had a teacher three months of this year; she is now in a mental home. Not that the children drove her crazy; she just...
...which snowballing is tolerated, if not actively encouraged. When I arrived at the front gate one morning, some of my little angels were snowballing some other little angels just in back of school. I went out and thumped three of them. Fate at that moment sent the eighth-grade boys out to snowball the second-graders right under our noses. This is known as being On the Spot. "Oh yeah," my children say, "you spank us little guys but you don't dare touch the big ones!" "Oh, don't I?" says I. I went out and politely...