Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused to believe her mother was dead, could not explain the whereabouts of Sumner Knox. When a State detective tried to snatch a letter from her, powerful Mrs. Knox jerked his arm so hard that she broke a knitting fracture in his neck. Her lawyer announced: "She wants the public to feel that she is at least halfway human-not at all the monster that idle rumor has made...
Whether the U. S. gets its money's worth for the $2,000,000,000 it spends each year on public education is a matter of perennial dispute between taxpayers and educators. Last week a group of experts, who had just completed the most ambitious inquiry into this question ever made in the U. S., told New York, which spends more than any other State ($277,900,000), that it does not get its money's worth. Their proposals for making New York's school dollars do a better job were broad enough to fit most...
...Gulick, 46, is director of the Institute of Public Administration and a professor at Columbia. A Republican, he helped draft President Roosevelt's executive Reorganization plan. One of his hobbies is invention, one of his inventions, a voting machine...
...improve New York's public schools as Dr. Gulick's committee recommends would cost some $38,000,000. But he contends that the State can save more than $40,000,000-$2,000,000 net-by consolidating rural schools, enlarging their classes to 25 or 30 pupils, reducing interest charges on school building by more rapid debt reduction, and chiefly by eliminating some 8,000 teaching jobs as elementary school enrollments decline because of the falling birth rate...
Well aware that most surveys of education end in libraries, Dr. Gulick lost no time in starting a campaign to translate his $500,000 report into action. This week the Public Education Association in Manhattan gathered many a bigwig to hear...