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Quins alive. The Star was willing to handle Canadian sales and in July, when the Quins were seven weeks old, it called for bids on the U. S. rights. Newspaper Enterprise Association's $2,050 for six months was top. When that contract expired, NEA and Hearst's King Features Syndicate got together to halt a bidding contest at $10,000. In the spring of 1936, the NEA-Quins contract was renewed at the same figure...
Last week NEA, a little breathless after a scrimmage with "another American com-petitor" (not Hearst), signed up to pay the five little Dionnes about $50.000 a year for the exclusive privilege of making their "still" pictures for newspapers, magazines and commercial users,* for by now the Quins have become the world's greatest news-picture story, subscribed to for 1937 by 672 U. S. dailies with an aggregate circulation...
...more satisfied are most teachers, whose National Education Association has consistently deplored the absence of teachers on the NYA Advisory Board, now staffed with such lay figures as Glenn Cunningham, Amelia Earhart and Owen D. Young. Bitter because the New Deal has rejected NEA's demands for a Federal annuity to assist U. S. schools lamed by Depression, NEA's Secretary Willard Givens cracked at NYA as follows: "While a few youngsters are being taught harmonica playing, fancy lariat throwing and boondoggling, some hundreds of thousands of less fortunate ones throughout the U. S. are being denied...
Whipping Boy No. 2 proved more recalcitrant. Although the Federal Government has given many a lift to students and teachers through relief projects, it has so far refused direct subsidies to schools. Last week NEA voted to ask for an immediate $100,000,000 Federal annuity to U. S. schools with no strings attached, to be upped to a maximum of $300,000,000. Delegates were enthusiastic, if mystified, when Secretary Willie A. Lawson of the Arkansas Education Association declared: "We think that a government which . . . refused to consider permanent Federal aid is using...
...turned down a resolution condemning the Reserve Officers Training ¶ Censured the school boards of Valhalla N. Y., Alexandria, Ind., Corunna, Mich., Lock Haven State Teachers College, Pa. for "unwarranted" dismissal of teachers. ¶ Elected not confident Superintended Holmes but Superintendent Orville Clyde Pratt of Spokane, Wash., as NEA's president for 1936-37. Big, solemn, bespectacled President-elect Pratt, at 55 ai authority on school finance, has kept Spokane's School Board firmly under hi thumb. His platform: More Members Democratic Control, Teacher Participation on School Boards...