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Vernon Struck, ace spinner back, got second call from sports editors of the UP and Associated Press as well as honorable mention in the INS poll and a place on the NEA Service's All East second team. A place on the NEA team also went to Kevorkian, while Nee made the UP second team...
...spoke venerable William Heard Kilpatrick, just retired by Columbia's Teachers College and now at Northwestern University, at the 75th or "diamond" convention of the National Education Association in Detroit last week. As 1,300 delegates and 12,000 vacationing NEA members crowded warmly into the Masonic Temple to begin four days of talk about their profession, no one was more on teachers' minds than the President of the U. S. He had just signed a new NEA charter which democratized the board of directors by dropping from it the Association's 22 past presidents, mostly school...
...spent another $213,832,000 outright for school buildings and repairs up to the end of 1936. The National Youth Administration had 435,000 needy students on its lists, WPA had given work to 42,000 unemployed teachers, there have been 1,500,000 youngsters in the CCC. To NEA, however, this tale of generosity did not atone for the fact that the Association's pet Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill, providing Federal school subsidies up to $300,000,000 a year to the States, was sidetracked this year by the President when he sent his economy message to Congress...
...convention once more resolved to plump for the Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill, encouraged NEA's adult education section to strike Congress for another $25,000,000 to eradicate illiteracy...
Extremely profitable to themselves, the Quins' cherubic features are not, however, the gold mine for NEA that might be supposed. NEA gives them to the 710 clients of its regular feature service at no extra charge, and now at a cost to itself of about $100,000 a year. Hearst thought the new $50,000 was too high, so NEA hurried around last week placing new Quin contracts. Takers included the Boston Post, Atlanta Journal, Detroit News and, for exclusive U. S. magazine rights, TIME...