Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parents of some 26,000,000 U. S. public school children the all-important question as they send their youngsters to school each term is: Who will his teacher be? Parents well know that whether a school is Progressive or Traditional, palace or shack, a good teacher is still a good teacher and a poor one a menace to their children. To conscientious educators, who are everlastingly amazed that the same parents who insist on a fully qualified doctor will gamble on a teacher, improving the quality of the 1,000,000 U. S. teachers is the nation...
...children; and 2) they don't like children. Average training of U. S. elementary schoolteachers is less than two years of normal school. Teaching attracts a less able group than any other profession. Moreover, the chances are seven-to-one that a pupil in twelve years of public schooling will get two teachers who are neurotic or downright psychopathic for these reasons...
Last week TIME'S Index of Business Conditions was again off a minuscule amount-from 98.8 to 98.5. The public's spending for trade purposes held steady, but spending in big cities was sharply off, due to the lack of financing activity. There was a slight indication of increased borrowing by businessmen for inventory purposes...
Hustling home to San Francisco, old A. P. immediately took his battle to the public. Snapped this onetime backer of the New Deal: "I found bright young men, fresh from academic halls, completely uninformed of life and experience and the ways of business, dominating important councils. By using the force of propaganda they try to compensate...
...practically impossible for anyone who has hit the jackpot of a slot machine to keep from trying it again. The Manhattan publishing firm of Farrar & Rinehart hit the public jackpot hard with the first of the 1,000-page historickal-romantickal novels, Anthony Adverse. After five years of wistful abstinence (particularly trying because meanwhile Macmillan hit an even bigger pot with Gone...