Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noting that America has been called "a nation of economic illiterates," Dean Holmes observed that "perhaps the whole world is economically illiterate...
Building America is published by the Society for Curriculum Study, whose 900 members include some of the nation's top-rank educators. It is partly supported by the Lincoln School of Columbia's Teachers College, until this year had a staff of WPA researchers. Claiming to be impartial, scientific, it presents the problems of modern civilization to junior and senior high-school children. Its creed: "The American people have so far mastered the forces of nature that, for the first time in history, we can now live in an age of plenty for all." It publishes eight issues...
...facts on which Building America is based come from authoritative treatises and periodicals like FORTUNE. Each issue is submitted to experts on both sides of controversial questions before publication. Although every issue asks U. S. schoolchildren to think about how better use can be made of the nation's resources. Building America has thus far escaped serious attack. Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram denounced the Power issue as propaganda for public ownership of electric utilities, but that dispute wound up with Scripps-Howard's Editor George B. Parker eulogizing the magazine...
...Federal Writers' Project began its monumental task of giving the U. S. a more up-to-date "detail portrait of itself" in August 1935, when WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins picked a bespectacled, slow-speaking ex-lawyer, ex-newspaperman, ex-publicity agent, Henry Alsberg, as national director. The survivor of a helter-skelter career that included editorial writing on the New York Post, a year as secretary to the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey before the War, a post-War job as the Nation's foreign correspondent, a term as director of the Provincetown Theatre, Director Alsberg started...
...guides evoked far more literary enthusiasm than official publications usually raise. Said Critic Lewis Mumford as the first volumes appeared, "These guidebooks are the finest contribution to American patriotism that has been made in our generation." Said New York Times''s Robert Duffus, as the full nation-wide scope of the Project appeared: "The guides . . . will enable us for the first time to hold the mirror up to all America." Although the Massachusetts guide was denounced by Governor Hurley for its reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, less sensitive readers judged the books' objective viewpoint as fair...