Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Chicago there came to public attention a more baffling case of inversion than any previously discovered - a schoolboy who writes with his left hand, not only backwards but also upside down. When he was in the first grade in Chicago's Fulton Elementary School, Frank Balek, now eleven, the son of a left-handed mother, puzzled his teachers because he could not learn to read or write. In the second grade he pushed his paper sideways, began to make some progress. By the third grade he had shoved the paper all the way around...
...recent film British Actress Grade Fields, who makes a reputed $750,000 a year, sang "You've Got to Smile When You Say Goodby" from the top deck of a departing liner. Recently, as her father and mother sailed from Southampton on the Berengaria, Gracie standing on the dock suddenly burst into "You've Got to Smile When You Say Good-by." The astonished crowd around her, liking Gracie much more than they did the proprieties, clamored for an encore. Gracie obliged: "Little Old Lady," for her mother...
...Roslyn's fourth-grade children ranged from 7 to 16 in age. Now fewer children are retarded. Instead of keeping backward pupils with younger children, Roslyn's schools promote them, give them coaching in their weak subjects...
...steel town, Detroit the automobile town, Akron the rubber town. But the improvement to transportation facilities has led to a general decentralizing of U. S. industries. Incidentally, the process has been hard on Labor. Nowhere is this more evident than in Akron, which last week witnessed a Grade A case in point: In a blunt manifesto to the United Rubber Workers Union, B. F. Goodrich Co. announced that its workers would have to accept 13% to 18% wage cuts or else Goodrich would pull another 5,000 jobs out of its Akron plants...
Federal Judge Murray Hulbert and a Grade A jury heard notes of awe and amazement in Attorney Burns's voice as he made it clear that the Ringling tax tricks, exuberant, huge and clever, were worthy of the late great Phineas Taylor Barnum. The Government charged that many of the evasions were run of the mill failures to report full income from gate, concessions, dividends, stock manipulations and "false, fictitious and fraudulent" deductions for debts. Among the latter was one for $50,000 from the late Promoter George L. ("Tex") Rickard, allegedly subtracted twice. But in the centre ring...