Word: manne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EDWARD C. MANN...
...generations, the schools have had a mission in the U.S. that went well beyond simple learning. Writing in 1848, Horace Mann declared that education was "the great equalizer of the conditions of men-the balance-wheel of the social machinery." Most Americans would readily agree. To Mann and those who followed him, the public school system was what made U.S. democracy possible and guaranteed its prosperity as well...
Elite. Although the FBI in its early days concentrated on auto thefts and illegal sexual conduct (Mann Act violation), its publicity was focused on its more dramatic gun battles with such romanticized thugs as "Baby Face" Nelson and John Dillinger. Later the FBI exploited its World War II investigations
...study is being financed in part by an initial grant of about $1000 from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, but Mann said yesterday that he has applied for a Ford Foundation grant...
...Mann estimates that now only about 15 per cent of job applicants are women, and ten per cent are black. In Harvard's department, of 28 faculty members, seven are women and four are members of minority groups, he said. "We're almost irreproachable compared to the other places," he said...