Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME had no need to apologize to Superintendent of Schools Jansen for its report on Harlem [TIME, May 17]. Eight years before his ". . . two-year-project to reduce delinquency in Harlem," I established a psychiatric clinic at P.S. 89, in deep Harlem, under the sponsorship of the boss of the Truant Officers, George Chatfield. My final report, after two years of zealous effort, is so close to your April 5th [review of] the present Harlem Report, that I shall spare you the actual comparisons. And this was six years before Jansen's special pleading that Harlem gangs "mimicked...
...resolution by Board Member (and Brigadier General) Carlton S. Dargusch, 47, wartime deputy director of Selective Service. General Dargusch had heard "widespread" rumors of Communism on the campus and thought that now was the time for teachers to "come forward and be counted." The Cleveland Press denounced the project as "hysterical libeling of a whole faculty . . . [The oath] won't reach the liars. It will infuriate honest...
Butte was already responding to Kelley's faith in the town's mining future. Workers were flocking back. A citizens' group which had started a housing project was expanding it; others were plugging a new $2,000,000 hospital and recreation center. The first $100 housing contribution came from Local No. 1, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Said Union President Oscar Hill, whose local had fought many a bitter fight against Anaconda: "The future of Butte and the security of its working people is established...
During the entire life of the project we were in the midst of a world war . . . There was a real teacher shortage...
Although the music is Gerschefski's the lyrics are taken verbatim from TIME'S story in National Affairs, which was writen by Robert Hagy. The ballad's production became a Spartanburg communal project. It is arranged in four parts for orchestra, women's chorus and baritone solo. The baritone was a local coal and sand man; the orchestra and chorus were made up of college music students, housewives and Spartanburg businessmen. They rehearsed for weeks, not only for the ballad but also for the rest of the 35-year-old festival's program...