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...example of the nationwide teacher shortage was seen last week in the school system of Laurens (rhymes with The Wrens), Iowa. This prairie town of 1,400 in the northwest grain area of the Hawkeye state has a consolidated school with about 460 kindergarten-through-high school pupils. Although the teachers' salary budget was boosted 10% for 1943 there have been months of lively candidate-hunting by School Superintendent W. C. Hilburn. These measures have not done much against wartime's many wage lures...
...gentle kindergarten tones, British officials tried to tell this Nazi-headed Teuton some ABC's of Britain: that Britons, including titled Britons, contsidered Nazi Germany much more dangerous than Soviet Russia; that, even if the King and the Dukes desired peace with Nazi Germany, the British would never stand for it. But Hess could not believe that the "plutos" of a "pluto-democracy" would ally themselves with Communist Russia; that the leaders of a major world power like Great Britain would allow the public any say about national policy...
...long ago you blasted Congress loud and long, and we all thought, "There is justice now and then, regardless of the old proverb." When your turn comes, you howl like kindergarten kids, till the country is persuaded that that is what...
...geopolitical "amateurs" of Europe were greatly amused by the kindergarten . . . map of "scholarly" Professor Renner [TiME, July 13]. On the basis of the "rennerized" map of Europe . . . and inspired by the professor's "democratic specifications," we have drafted a map of the U.S. as it might look if our European moppets were allowed to play with...
...little green-painted house Hoge likes to slump his square shoulders in a chair and sit with the wife he met in a Lexington, Mo. kindergarten-planning the week ahead. Pretty, brown-eyed Mrs. Hoge knows how to live the frontier life. As a general's lady she still does her cooking and washing. When the general is in town they take a short evening stroll on the board sidewalk with their fox terrier-Hoge puffing a favorite pipe. Nettie Hoge has led frontier life before. In the Philippines her husband built the main road on Bataan...