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This neat bit of doggerel by Jack Tarver (Macon Telegraph) passed from mouth to mouth in Georgia last week. But to no avail: Governor Gene Talmadge, who has taken his bounden oath to drive all foreigners* out of the Cracker State, won his first victory and expelled a "foreigner," Iowa-born Walter Cocking, dean of the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Talmadge charge: that Cocking dared to hope that white and Negro teachers might study together at a graduate school (still in the idea stage) proposed near Athens (Ga.). Ten of the State's 15 regents...
John Studebaker, key man in this key job, is lean, spectacled, a wiry bundle of energy. Iowa-born, a star all-round high-school and college athlete who worked his way through Leander Clark College as a union bricklayer, he was national director of the Junior Red Cross in World War I. As an educator, he distinguished himself chiefly by organizing public forums where adults might discuss problems of democracy, first as Superintendent of Schools in Des Moines, since 1934 as U. S. Commissioner...
...sooner had this stir passed when another new U. S. singer caused another. No Wagnerian heavyweight, Soprano Harriet Henders (real name Henderson) made her Metropolitan debut as the soubrette, Sophie, in Richard Strauss's gay Rosenkavalier. Iowa-born and California-bred, Harriet Henders had gathered bouquets for eight years in most of Central Europe's leading opera houses, but remained almost unknown in her native U. S. A coy, roly-poly actress with fluid, round-edged top notes, she sang her part with veteran poise. She was tops in Sophies...
...campuses rang with denunciations of Adolf Hitler, the Führer last week decorated five U. S. pedagogues with the Order of Merit of the German Eagle. The New York Times promptly wired the professors to find out if they would accept the awards. A reply came from Iowa-born Karl Frederick Geiser, a retired Oberlin College professor whose highest previous honor was a teaching fellowship in Germany during 1936-37. Author of a work called Democracy versus Autocracy (1918) and of a translation of Sombart's Deutscher Sozialismus (1937), Professor Geiser wanted to keep his medal (first-class...
...correspondent who, after 30 years in news paper work from typesetting to editing, became executive assistant to Postmaster General Farley in 1933. Only airline executive named to the Authority was 34-year-old Socialite George Grant Mason Jr., foreign representative of Pan American Airways in charge of Caribbean service. Iowa-born, New York-bred. Fourth Authority member is Mormon-born Democrat Robert Hinckley, assistant WPA administrator for Far Western States and supervisor of considerable WPA airport and airway project work. Fifty-year-old Indiana Republican Oswald Ryan, fifth member, has for six years been gen eral counsel to the Federal...