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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago delegation, biggest at the convention, came determined to squelch the left-wing New York local. But no squelching was done. Opening the meeting, President Jerome Davis earnestly pleaded: "One of the greatest tasks confronting our federation is how to build unity with all the forces that are opposing dictatorship and fascism. We must do our utmost to make unity the keynote of our present convention." The rest of the 500 delegates proceeded to support Chicago's resolutions, condemn the Kelly-Nash machine's "interference" with Chicago's schools, elect two Chicagoans to the executive council. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Davis' Diplomacy | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Emma wants a knight on a white horse, gets the florist's assistant next door. Thea wants riches, gets the local business man, who owns a big car and is a pain in the neck. Kay wants fame, gets a spot on a radio hour. Ann wants fun and laughter, gets nothing but trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 29, 1938 | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...federation this year had reasons for avoiding doctrinal fireworks. Chief reason: its coming of age in Chicago, where Local No. 1 (thanks to memories of payless pay days and a political spoils system in the school system) has enrolled 8,500 of the city's 13,000 teachers and gained for the federation its first majority in any city. Last week, having doubled its membership in two years, for the first time A. F. T. set its cap hopefully for the conservative rank & file of the nation's 1,000,000 teachers, of whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Davis' Diplomacy | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...Cardinal, gave St. Josephs a $5.000 pavilion on Lake St. Dominic. In that pavilion last week, Marquis MacDonald, Cardinal Hayes, three bishops, many a monsignor, priest and nun did honor to calm-faced Mother Polycarpa, 68. who has managed St. Josephs for 25 years as Mother Superior of the local Dominican community. It was the 50th anniversary of Mother Polycarpa's profession as a nun. So throughout the day, as Dominicans do on their jubilees, she wore what Dominicans call a "golden crown"-actually a wreath of gilt flowers, hers for keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crowned Dominican | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...Mahatma Gandhi. For about ten years he has been possessed by the ambition to give San Francisco a colossal statue of its "patron" St. Francis of Assisi, envisioned finally as a 150-ft. figure of glittering stainless steel. His first model for this won the approval of the local WPA, of Archbishop John Joseph Mitty, and, in the end, of the San Francisco art commission. Leading U. S. Franciscans, however, called it a "Mephistophelean monstrosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: San .Francisco's Saint | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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