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...William C. Bartholomay, John J. McHale, Thomas A. Reynolds Jr., John J. Louis Jr., Delbert W. Coleman, James B. McCahey Jr., Daniel C. Searle and Louis R. Perini...
Teachers Overruled. Chicago's school system began to go wrong, charged N.E.A., soon after James B. McCahey, a coal dealer and cog in Mayor Ed Kelly's machine, was named president of the school board in 1933. It got worse after McCahey appointed William H. Johnson to be superintendent in 1936. McCahey and Johnson went to work first on Chicago Teachers College, a public school adjunct which has a monopoly on the training of all the city's elementary teachers...
...pair demoted able, honest Butler Laughlin from the presidency of the college to a high-school job because, the report said, he could not be "controlled" and once refused to falsify a student's grades at McCahey's request. Soon McCahey and Johnson began influencing grades without reference to teachers, wangling admissions for incompetent applicants, giving teaching jobs to friends. A city councilman's daughter who had been asked by her teachers to leave was awarded a teaching certificate after flunking 15 hours of class work...
Spies & Terror. In the lower schools, the report found the McCahey-Johnson control even tighter. Superintendent Johnson, whose back porch was dynamited last autumn (TIME, Oct. 2), was reported to have boasted of his spy system and its 24-hour service...
...N.E.A. charged, he again demoted Butler Laughlin to make room for one of McCahey's relatives. On less than a day's notice, he pushed competent Mrs. Olive P. Bruner out of the top job in a school for crippled children, replaced her with the sister of a Federal judge. In one 75-day period last fall, Johnson transferred over 600 teachers, in many cases as punishment or to make room for friends...