Word: massed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more Father Roosevelt was off to one of those family ceremonies which Roosevelts love. This time the event was Johnny's Day, the wedding-perhaps the last among Franklin Roosevelt's lively brood- of his youngest, John Aspinwall Roosevelt, 22, to Anne Lindsay Clark, 21, at Nahant, Mass...
...into Prague's big, bustling Masaryk and Wilson (named after Woodrow Wilson) railway stations, stomped out to the mammoth Masaryk Stadium,* high above the silvery Vltava River and the cathedral towers of the capital. There, in white jerseys and blue trousers and skirts, they twisted and bent in mass exercise. Before the month is over, 160,000 members will have participated in such elaborate drills...
Married. Joanne Bass, 22, daughter of New Hampshire's former Governor Robert P. Bass; to Marshall Field Jr., 22, Harvard senior, grandson of the late Chicago Financier Marshall Field; in East Walpole, Mass. Like his friend John Roosevelt (see p. 9), at whose wedding he ushered two days before his own, he received his Harvard degree in absentia...
...schools which he owns or supports. Chief centre of his experiments is Greenfield Village, whose schools, opened in 1929, are a part of Dearborn's city system. Some others: nearly a score of rural schools in Michigan; trade schools at the River Rouge plant; three schools in Sudbury, Mass.; seven rural schools and the famed Martha Berry Schools in Georgia; an agricultural institute at Boreham House near Chelmsford, England; a school for rubber workers' children, Fordlandia, 600 miles up the Amazon in Brazil...
...Ford's educational ideas are a curious mixture of the old-fashioned and modern. He calls his schools "the McGuffey type," and they reproduce as much as possible the old little red schoolhouse. No advocate of mass production in education, he likes small schools, small classes, individual instruction. But his schools have no more in common with the McGuffey type of education than the Ford has with a horse. Instead of learning from textbooks, Henry Ford's pupils learn by doing, from trips, planting, harvesting, building. Instead of confining themselves to the three Rs, his schools teach youngsters...