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...next autumn, however, Ivor Richards plans an extended program. He and his colleagues have completed a primary text of Basic English for Spanish-speaking peoples which will be published by Houghton Mifflin. They have also completed a first-year primer with a Portuguese text for Brazil. Two of them, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tucker, left last month for Quito, Ecuador, to establish there a Basic English School and to study the results of next autumn's broadcasts. This school will have a competitor, for there is already a well-subsidized German school in Quito...
...closely enough so that both sides could make head & tail of them. Last week posters drawn by Navajo artists and designed to teach Navajos the language by means of pictures and text (see cut) were displayed all over the reservation. Passed around in Navajo classrooms was the first Navajo primer, a fairy tale...
...Menace began to loom, Carleton Beals wrote The Coming Struggle for Latin America, and Cordell Hull survived Round One at the Lima Conference. Last year Reporter John T. Whitaker added to the literature of moderate alarm with Americas to the South, and Katherine Carr contributed her excellent South American Primer (TIME. Aug. 14) to the extant sources of information...
...little modest specification would sometimes help Aikman's survey, for though the reader may learn from him that foreign investment in Argentina is $4,432,000,000, the reader must turn to Miss Carr's Primer for names of U. S. corporations involved (Du Pont and Elizabeth Arden are two). Pertinent and electrifying are the bits of "U. S. Colonial" chitchat that Reporter Aikman picked up over highballs in South American capitals. Samples...
Democracy Readers (for the primer and first six grades) have two able editors-Professor Werrett Wallace Charters of Ohio State University and Miss Prudence Cutright, assistant superintendent of schools in Minneapolis. The readers, as contemporary and homely as a comic strip, are didactic but entertaining. To explain democracy they draw upon the writings of such diverse modern characters as Edgar Guest, J. Edgar Hoover, Amelia Earhart, Dorothy Thompson and Pare Lorentz...