Word: handicrafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sailing for Europe last autumn he got an order for six dozen sets of Politics from Manhattan's F. A. O. Schwarz (toy store), had to call upon guests to help sort thousands of colored pins on his apartment floor. Last week with Politics having advanced from the handicraft stage to the hands of Parker Brothers, Inventor Lord claimed that sales were running above 500 sets per day in stores throughout the land...
There is a variety of work offered. These settlement houses need teachers in naturalization courses. They need boys club directors. They need swimming and basketball instructors. They need discussion group leaders for older boys. They need entertainers, handicraft teachers, and game supervisors. The work to be done is important and necessary. For the student who is willing to sacrifice two hours a week to work of this nature, the reward is to be found in a clearer understanding of economic problems gained from personal contact with a few of those who are on the edge of economic ruin...
...imagine they are choosing it themselves. In junior high school English, mathematics and the social sciences are required. Elective subjects emphasized are French, German and Latin-all previously offered in grammar school. Senior high school students take, in addition to regular college preparatory work, "creative" courses like art, dramatics, handicraft. Last week Bronxville's school system was the chief issue in a warm village election. The Democratic candidates for school board, who attacked both the system's cost ($233 per pupil per year) and its progressivism, ran far ahead of their ticket, but not far enough to defeat...
...title is a combination of two Greek words and means a wood expert." There were reports, painstakingly simple, of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, wreck of the Macon, and even an attempt at explaining the Supreme Court's gold decisions. There were pages on sport, entertainment, books, puzzles, handicraft, housekeeping, an adventure column by Lowell Thomas, many a comic strip with instructive implications...
...small communities and provide small industries for a cash income; 3) to transfer farmers from worn-out lands to homesteads of 30 or 40 acres on good land where they can grow their own food and perhaps pick up a little pin money from local industries or home handicraft...