Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party war-chest, 3) spent by anyone but the Workers Alliance-for pamphlets, mass meetings, radio time to tell the unemployed where their "interests" in the Congressional campaign lie. Unimpressed, Chairman Sheppard last week wrote to President Lasser: "Personally, I warn you . . . not to carry out this proposed plan. . . . If you proceed. . . and if the committee should agree with my interpretation of the law, it is my intention to request the committee to refer the matter to the Department of Justice...
Dictator Stalin's veteran favorite, Lazar Kaganovich, big-nosed and brutally effective in driving Soviet bureaucrats to greater Five-Year Plan zeal was last week gazetted a Vice Premier. Thus was promoted a man who is one of the few remaining Old Bolshevik top-rank members of the Government, deserving of promotion if only for the amount of trouble he has shouldered. But even such good news as a promotion was a reflection of a purge. The announcement made passing mention of "former" Vice Premiers Vlas Chubar and Stanislav Kosior. Chubar and Kosior recently failed of election to either...
...South, where Holger Cahill had observed the greatest need. The First Federal-sponsored community centre was started by Director Parker in Raleigh, N. C., in January 1936. Since then Assistant Parker, operating from his office in the Project's old building on Washington's G Street, has planned and planted centres from Harlem to Key West and in ten western States. In all cases the project starts by getting the community itself worked up over the idea. Pleasant Mr. Parker or his live-wire field man, Daniel Deffenbacher, arrives in town, confers with everybody from the mayor down...
India's impoverished rural children, who will go to school from ages 5 to 14, 288 days a year, will work for their education four hours each school day, making cloth, etc. for sale. Plan is to start each school by getting a patriot to give a piece of land yielding at least $80 a year. The rest of the cost is to be met by village festivals, Government grants. Teachers will live in the schoolhouses, be paid $8 a month, sign up for a minimum of 25 years' service. A problem: enlisting women teachers. India has virtually...
This was the problem which Mahatma Gandhi and the All-India Nationalist Congress last week prepared to tackle with a new plan, the Wardha Education Scheme (named after Gandhi's headquarters). Its goal: a school in every village. These schools (vidya mandirs: "temples of learning") will be opened in 166 villages of one province next month and the Central Advisory Board of Education is planning to establish them soon throughout India. Championing the plan is the board's bespectacled, English-educated president, Bal Gangadhar Kher, Premier of Bombay, father of five children and himself a one-time schoolteacher...