Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trend" stories which will give the background of spot news about Harvard science so that it "means something" to the lay reader will appear soon through the efforts of the newly-formed Public Relations Committee of the Asociation of Harvard Scientists, the committee chairman, Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy announced...
...State law prohibiting debt carry-overs to the next fiscal year. Unofficial calculations were that 200 Georgia schools, with 20,000 pupils, were closed. In many a Georgia village and town, worried citizens met to talk of ways & means of educating their children. Some decided to keep the public schools open by charging tuition. In Lamar County, white children's school term was shortened to eight months, Negro children's schools were closed. At Villa Rica, a mass meeting raised $2,000 to keep schools open four weeks. Among the contributions: from the Villa Rica high-school senior...
While the Pennsylvania Property Owners Association warned that "Pennsylvania's public school system is doomed to early collapse," Pennsylvania's educators pleaded with economy-minded Governor Arthur H. James to replenish the special State fund for schools in distressed areas, now exhausted. Having pleaded in vain, nearly 200 teachers last week marched out of 27 schools in Northumberland and Schuylkill Counties, declared they would not go back until they were paid...
Meanwhile, in Spokane, Wash., National Education Association's President Reuben T. Shaw lamented: "The U. S. is farther from universal education, to which the public looks for preservation of the fundamental traditions of democracy, than it was 100 years...
...Greek Orthodox, had temporal power with a vengeance: its Patriarch Miron Cristea was King Carol's puppet Premier. Patriarch Cristea did not resist an impulse to crack down on Protestant sects. His device was simple. He had his Minister of Cults decree that no congregation could hold public services unless at least 100 heads of families belonged...