Word: mcandrew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...general packed more sting than any others, and the one positively new section of last week's exhibition was a survey of modern housing in Europe and the U. S. down to the last projects of the $800,000,000 U. S. Housing Authority. Cracked Curator John McAndrew, with the pictures on the wall to back...
Publisher John McAndrew of the weekly Beverly Hills (Calif.) Bulletin decided recently his business needed more cash, applied to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for a loan of $10,000. After an audit of his books, pro-Administration Publisher McAndrew was turned down. Reason: an RFC loan to a newspaper might be construed as a Government effort to influence the press politically...
Died. William Andrew Me Andrew, 73, famed educator, onetime (1924-28) Chicago Superintendent of Schools; in Mamaroneck, N. Y. The focus of William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's clownish anti-British Mayoralty campaign of 1926, Michigan-born Educator McAndrew retired from teaching to edit the "Educational Review" in School & Society...
...office, constitutes one of the gravest dangers to a Superintendent of Schools. The displacement of men in high positions at the strategic centres of our country has been the shame of education in the past decade." Superintendent Sutton had to mention no names, for fox-bearded William Andrew McAndrew, who was ridden out of his Chicago superintendency on farcical charges by Mayor William Hale ("America First") Thompson (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935), was much in evidence. Twinkling at the Outstanding Service Award he received from the Exhibitors Association, Mr. McAndrew repulsed photographers by crying: "I belong to the loyal order...
Chicago's mammoth public school system hires 13,000 teachers, educates 460,000 pupils at a yearly cost of $71,000,000. Few U. S. educators, however, feel any strong urge to rule it. Peppery, fox-bearded Superintendent William McAndrew (1924-28), born in Ypsilanti, Mich., was constantly bedeviled as a "stool pigeon of King George" by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill'') Thompson's "America First" campaign. His successor, William Joseph Bogan (1928-36), spent most of his term in the morass of teachers' "payless paydays." Last week Chicago's Board of Education, looking...