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...last April blue-eyed handshaking William Harding Johnson rolled up in his shiny new official Cadillac to take his new office as Chicago's Superintendent of Schools, in the eyes of good government agitators there were two strikes against him. He was Board of Education President James B. McCahey's man, and between McCahey and Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly there was too close a partnership to suit watchdogs of Chicago's schools. Board Member Mrs. William S. Hefferan had quoted ten civic leaders: "The precipitous appointment of Dr. Johnson is opposed to leading educational...
...salary. Not long after, Superintendent Johnson announced a new eligible list for principals. Of the 155 successful candidates on the examination, 128 had come from Loyola University, where Superintendent Johnson teaches. Of the 15 principals promptly appointed from this list, one was Board of Education President James B. McCahey's sister, Marie McCahey, who had previously failed in three tests for a high-school teaching license. Several others were relatives of city officials. Soon the Chicago Board of Education was defending three suits charging violation of the merit system...
...sparks had ignited a conflagration that threatened to consume the educational branch of Chicago's notorious Kelly-Nash city administration. What payless pay days and hunger (TIME, March 7, 1932 et seq.) had failed to do-unite Chicago's warring teachers' organizations-the rankling McCoy and McCahey episodes had accomplished...
...time because the Board of Education, performing a Chicago miracle; discovered in its kitty an extra $900,000 which could pay salaries of its often unpaid teachers for the extra week. Five days before the scheduled opening, Chicago's schools made unexpected news when Board President James B. McCahey announced that they would remain "indefinitely closed" because of a threatened epidemic of infantile paralysis (see p. 35). President McCahey's order brought much pleasure to the city's 619,000 hale pupils. To the Carpenter Elementary School on Chicago's West Side it brought destruction...