Word: olney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jayvee players: Ripley, Claflin, Manley, Lawrence, Carroll, MacDonald, Olney, Fuller, Reiner, Scanlan, Gross, Davis, Bennett, Spence, Birdsall, Richards, Hatch, Harrington...
Last spring, in a directive to all principals, the School Board of Superintendents reasserted the city's mass-promotion policy. Immediately, all 144 faculty members of the Olney High School rose up in protest. "The directive," they declared, "implies that every pupil is to be advanced from grade to grade, regardless of attendance, behavior, or ability. The chief criterion is to be chronological age. Pupils having been exposed to this 'something-for-nothing' policy . . . will be unprepared to meet real life. . . ." Emboldened, 14 of the city's 16 high schools joined the battle. Individual teachers began...
...Money. The daughter of an Irish streetcar conductor, she was ten when she earned her first money (25?) for singing. The stage: a bread box in front of a Philadelphia store. Even then, her voice was hoarse, her hair stringy, her teeth protruding. But the Olney neighborhood liked her. By the time she was 17 she was singing in a Camden, N.J. nightclub, where she earned, as combination hatcheck-girl, vocalist and electrician, about $85 a week. The turning-point in her career came when she met a handsome, liquid-eyed insurance broker named Frank Kinsella...
Democrats found out that last fortnight's Oklahoma election did not mean that Oklahoma is Democratic. Last week Tulsa's city administration, Democratic since 1928, was thrown out. The new mayor: Olney F. Flynn, 48, oilman, campaigned as an anti-New Dealer, Oklahoma is still a border state...
...Brooks Nye Heath, Nelson Fischer Hermance, Jr., Harry Lindley Hosford, Jr., Richard Farnsworth Hunnewell, Paul James Kirby, Robert Galen Knight, Francis Edward Lawlor, George Knowlton Lewis, Gustaf Berg Lindquist, Stuart McCarty, Joseph Berard McGrath, Charles Fessenden Morse, 3d., George Nakhnikian, Richard Ober, John Aloysius O'Keefe, 3d., Austin Gill Olney, William Preston Palmer, Jr., Bruce Brandon Phemister, Gerard William Renner, Charles Snelling Robinson, 2d., James Tracy Ronan, Constantine Constantine Spillotakis, Albert Myer Starr, Donald Bruce Talmage, Michael Barrett Thompson, Samuel Lombard Tucker, Charles Bingham Penrose Van Pelt, Burton Ebert Van Vort, John Damien Walsh, Phillips Noble Weeks, Phillips Whidden, Richard...