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Teachers. If U. S. education, out of step with the industrial 20th Century, was ripe for change when Dewey arrived, it was not yet ready to plump for any such apparently helter-skelter scheme as this and Progressive Education made little headway before 1918. That fall one Stanwood Cobb, an instructor in Annapolis' severely traditional U. S. Naval Academy, rounded up a few progressive educators, formed the Progressive Education Association...
William C. Rittman '39 and L.E. Lebocuf '39 awoke yesterday morning to find a plump duck complacently waddling about their living room in Adams House...
Last week none other than John L. Lewis went out of his way to plump for that suggestion. At Houston, Teamster Daniel J. Tobin made himself the No. 1 figure of this year's A.F. of L. convention by pounding for peace, at last forced William Green to pay attention to the hitherto neglected message from Mr. Roosevelt. After much verbiage on the floor, much talk behind doors, Dan Tobin was able to announce that he had received a promise of positive action for peace from the all-powerful executive council...
...years ago. pugnacious little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia this year got a Dewey of his own for New York City's five far-flung boroughs. Created under the new city charter was a $10,000 job, the Mayor's Commissioner of Investigation. Picked for it was a plump young Brooklyn lawyer, William B. Herlands, 32 to Lawyer Dewey's 36 and equally diligent, who had worked with Tom Dewey in the U.S. Attorney's office and later worked for him as a municipal racket buster. Judging Manhattan well taken care of when Tom Dewey was elected...
...Palestine, stop Jewish immigration, resign as mandatory Power-in plainer words, that Britain get out and leave the 400,000 Jews to the mercy of the 900,000 Arabs. Significant it was that the delegates journeyed to Alexandria to drink tea at Ras-El-Tin Palace with plump, ambitious, 18-year-old King Farouk I of Egypt, whose palace clique foresees for him the future role of Caliph of all Islam...