Word: jansenism
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...have seen Robinson play, and I think that he is terrific (I saw him steal home against Joe Beggs). But there is another rookie whose record seems even more impressive. He is Larry Jansen, pitching star of the New York Giants...
Last week, to no one's surprise but to a few people's wrath, the board found the "best man" in its own backyard-just two doors down from Wade's office. The choice shattered no precedents. The new superintendent: faithful, 59-year-old William Jansen, Wade's right-hand man in the formidable corps of 41 associate and assistant superintendents...
...outlander. In two years at Minneapolis, drawling, down-to-earth Willard Goslin had won higher pay for teachers, opened new schools, overhauled the study program, been voted Citizen No. 2 (after Sister Kenny), and attracted national attention. The pro-Goslin New York Herald Tribune, "depressed and disheartened" by Jansen's appointment as superintendent, called it the choice "of the man next in line, the insider who knows the ropes and knows the folks and knows how much easier it is to let things...
Dese, Dose & Firetraps. Dr. Jansen, as head, of the nation's biggest public school system (800 schools, 34,000 teachers, 890,000 pupils) will have one of education's most thankless jobs. There are fine things about the New York system (including excellent technical high schools, special classes for handicapped youngsters). But most parents who can afford it send their kids to private schools, and many others wish they could find the money...
...Jansen and Weyl, who have felt Naziism's heavy hand, forecast a reign of terror in the Reich before the Nazis' grip is loosed. This punishment, they believe, is inevitable and must be suffered. But they take issue with those who class all Germans as Nazi brutes whose record bars them forever from a place in future world affairs. They predict for Germany "a government of the people, by the people and for the people" which will be established by a democratic revolution. As Social Democrats and members of the Underground they speak...