Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallace: "It looks like I have passed the first grade...
...Conflict. But at week's end there was some doubt that Henry Wallace would make the grade at all. He seemed certain to be shorn of the powers of Federal Loan Administrator. And the Commerce Committee, by a 14-to-5 vote, had also adopted an unfavorable report on his nomination for Commerce Secretary. There was a bare chance he might win confirmation in the full Senate, but his foes stoutly believed they had him licked...
...Roosevelt's career. General "Hap" Arnold included his name in a list of 78 colonels up for promotion to brigadier general. If the promotion was approved by the Senate, Colonel Roosevelt would become one of the few Air Forces combat generals, possibly the only one, who made the grade without the magic of a pilot's wings...
...Geography books identified the Mediterranean as "Mare Nostro," taught only Italian geography until the fifth grade. Then they indicated the relative size, strength and importance of other nations with drawings of a Fascist-saluting giant (Italy) beside a diminutive figure representing the other nation...
Trying something new, the Board last week placed an initial order for 600,000 new books for public-school children (sample authors: Mark Twain, Stevenson, Dickens, O. Henry) with eye-catching illustrations drawn mostly by the children themselves. These will be distributed free to 7th, 8th, and 9th grade pupils, to keep for their very...