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Refused a new contract as Chicago's superintendent of schools because of charges that he introduced British propaganda into school histories. Dr. William McAndrew made known last week that he will become editor of histories for the Century Company, New York publishers. He made the announcement while giving a lecture entitled "Life Among the Boneheads...
Crunch-crunch went pretzels in the mouth of J. Lewis Coath, president of the Chicago Board of Education. Mr. Coath was presiding over another session of School Superintendent McAndrew's "trial" for insubordination (TIME, Sept. 12, et seq.). Although Superintendent McAndrew was absent from the hearing, 17 Chicago school teachers, principals and district superintendents, were present to call him a "Simon Legree . . . a faker . . . a cruel task master," because he had obliged them to exact perfect answers from their pupils before permitting the pupils to continue to subsequent lessons...
Complained Harry G. Clark, a district superintendent: "We were told that if we did not reach perfection in these tests instituted by Mr. McAndrew some one else would be found to take our places. . . . The result of Mr. Andrew's ironhanded methods were found in cheating and dishonesty in the students and teachers." Others testified similarly...
...Board of Education, a partial set of false teeth in Mayor William Hale Thompson's capable mouth, has orders to chew up Superintendent McAndrew. It refused to receive his statement. Whereupon Superintendent McAndrew silently collected his papers on his desk in the "trial" room, turned his back on the board and began to walk...
Superintendent McAndrew reached the door. The voice of the board's president, J. Lewis Coath, reached him: "Will the superintendent please remain?" Superintendent McAndrew's short, broad-shouldered form passed the door jam. Mayor Thompson's figurative teeth gnashed. One of them broke from the denture. It was Walter J. Raymer, Chicago banker, theretofore docile member of the board. He cried...