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...MCANDREW...
...Thompson was elected last April because loud talk succeeds nowhere so well as in Chicago. But then Mr. Thompson was faced with the necessity of finding a legal way to oust Mr. McAndrew. It is easier to shout epithets than to prove them and the ousting of Mr. McAndrew dragged along until last month. Then President J. Lewis Coath of the Chicago school board, who had been charged with the "job," announced that a way had been found. Mr. Coath had not found the way himself. He had been told about it by James Todd, the school board...
This "guilt" had attached itself to Mr. McAndrew during a legal action against the school board the past summer. A group of 288 teacher-clerks had sought an injunction to prevent the school board from replacing them with civil service (political) appointees. In court, the teacher-clerks had sent for Mr. McAndrew to explain to the judge the nature of their duties. Mr. McAndrew had complied, saying, yes, the duties of teacher-clerks are predominantly educational. They assist the school principals in supervising classroom work; they interview parents, help with home work, aid discipline and even, when needed, teach classes...
Defending himself against impending suspension, prearranged at last week's meeting of the school board, Mr. McAndrew rehearsed his teacher-clerk testimony and his conception of his duty so clearly, that the ouster vote was tied at 5 to 5. President Coath was obliged to perform a clumsy coup de grace with his deciding vote to make the Thompson campaign promise seem to come true...
...promise did not actually come true because Mr. McAndrew, though suspended, has yet to be tried. And none is more eager for his trial than himself. He will be defended by Lawyer Angus Roy Shannon, author of the Illinois law under which the Chicago school system operates. His defense will set forth that the intention of the law was to make the superintendent of Chicago's schools, not a "hired man" of Chicago's school board, but an executive which the board is required to appoint, drawing an independent authority from the same source that created the school...