Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...animal kingdom, always useful to cartoonists, provided striking companion pieces from the pens of Harold Talburt of Scripps-Howard and Hugh Hutton of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Talburt's showed the master magician producing a Deficit Hippopotamus as lesser men produce rabbits. Hutton's showed a third-term tuna playfully leaping over Franklin Roosevelt, as he fished with a bobber for the small game of this year's election...
Just what this broad promise meant became apparent last week as PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes offered 21 municipalities a total of $9,527,995 to build plants of their own though they are already served by private utilities.* To receive these beneficences, the 21 municipalities, said Mr. Ickes. must "make 'reasonable efforts in good faith' to purchase the facilities with which the applicants would be in competition. . . ." Asked who would be the judge of such efforts, Public Works Administrator Ickes declared: "I don't know anyone better qualified to judge what is fair and reasonable than...
...AMERICA'S CAPACITY TO PRODUCE, Edwin G. Nourse & Associates; AMERICA'S CAPACITY TO CONSUME, Maurice Leven, Harold G. Moulton, Clark Warburton; THE FORMATION OF CAPITAL, Harold G. Moulton; INCOME & ECONOMIC PROGRESS, Harold G. Moulton...
...unique mathematics course, most popular course in the school and required for all juniors and seniors. Called The Nature of Proof, this course is intended to promote critical thinking, differs from the usual study of logic by being entirely practical. It is taught by shock-haired, Canadian-born Dr. Harold Pascoe Fawcett. Dr. Fawcett starts with an ex planation of the principles of Euclidean geometry, goes on to show his students that every conclusion depends on assumptions and definitions, and, when correct, follows a concise mathematical pattern. His pupils then analyze speeches, political plat forms, advertising, riddle them full...
...exchange system "more or less on the plan of 'you hire the daughter of the president of our school board and we'll hire the cousin of your superintendent's wife's friend.' " The American Federation of Teachers also investigated the case of hapless Harold Sivula, Gilbert high-school teacher. Mr. Sivula, when he arrived in Gilbert, went to board in a house recommended by the school-board president. His wife's baby was delivered by a doctor on the school board. Warned by a friend that he was trading at the wrong grocery...