Word: pedagog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deutsch. Seldom is a newspaper's lawyer a hero in its editorial rooms. Even more seldom does a local barrister achieve note among the platoon of silk-hatted, wing-collared striped-trousered counsel which is attracted to an important constitutional case. Lawyer Deutsch, son of a Cincinnati pedagog, got a job in the circulation department of the Item-Tribune, went to Tulane University's law school at night, was admitted to the bar in 1925, has been the paper's counsel ever since. When Dictator Long cracked down on the "lying newspapers" of his State, which were...
...came to the U. S. in 1927 because a Scottish pedagog told him it was cheap and had good Negro preparatory schools. His greatest handicap at Virginia's Hampton Institute (for Negroes) was his ignorance of English. Baffled by Bantu, Hampton professors could not help him much. But when he departed after four years a classmate said, "A noble person goes on his way, conscious of his nobility...
...fond belief of many a pedagog that a major change is imminent in the pattern of U. S. education. Still dominant in the U. S. is the 8-4-4 pattern (eight years of grammar school, four of high school, four of college). In the last generation has arisen a rival 6-3-3-4 pattern (six years of grammar school, three of junior high, three of senior high, four of college). The pressure of the "old grad" has kept the four-year college course sacrosanct. But educators see a natural break between sophomore and junior years. Up to that...
...Approached by Jewish contributors to his campaign fund who aspired to be made diplomats, President Roosevelt neatly disposed of several by offering them the Berlin Embassy, later discovered that no rich U. S. citizen would take it, finally had to appeal to the self-sacrificing patriotism of a poor pedagog, Ambassador Professor Dodd to whom Berlin is today an interesting purgatory (TIME, June...
Once a highschool teacher, small, grey, solemn Alfred Adams Wheat retains the manner and appearance of a pedagog. Born in New Hampshire of old Yankee stock, he entered the District of Columbia bar in 1891. A Republican, he was appointed by President Hoover in 1929 to the District of Columbia's Supreme Court bench, where he moved up next year to be Chief Justice. From that bench last week he handed President Roosevelt's social program a major set-back by declaring the Railroad Retirement Act unconstitutional, granting an injunction against its operation...