Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first lesson, which by the way takes place in the office with the bicycle set up on the stand, is a training in continued reflexes. The pupil is taught to put on the brake at the word "Stop." He (or she) is shown how to sit properly (hygienic posture it is called) and all in all everyone has a grand time...
Next day the public schools opened as usual, laid plans to run extra shifts for the parochial pupils. Threatened with tar & feathers, Prophet Voliva declared himself a two-gun man ready to kill at the drop of a hat. Then he announced that he would reopen all but the lower grades of his parochial school, require every pupil to take an oath of allegiance to him. Satan and his imps would try to destroy the world sometime in September, he said, and he needed an organization "like Hitler's" to combat them...
Died. John James Elaine, 58, thrice Governor of Wisconsin, U. S. Senator (1927-33); of pneumonia; in Boscobel, Wis. A Progressive Republican pupil of the late Robert Marion La Follette, John Elaine supported the Presidential campaigns of Woodrow Wilson (1912), Senator La Follette (1924). Alfred Emanuel Smith (1928), Franklin Delano Roosevelt. President Roosevelt appointed him to the board of Reconstruction Finance Corp., formation of which he had opposed under President Hoover...
...except that he sometimes teased smaller children. Last week George Rogalski was in jail, his name was in grisly headlines and Superintendent of Schools William Joseph Bogan, after voicing a wish that every one of Chicago's 500,000 schoolchildren could be psychoanalyzed, had ordered analysis for every pupil who seemed to his teachers abnormal or subnormal in any way. Early last week two small boys heard whimpering sounds in a deserted ice house in a poor district of Chicago. Crawling through a broken skylight they came upon a 2½-year-old girl huddled on a pile...
...China. But unless some Power or group of states is prepared to fight, these "pious hopes expressed in general terms" will be useless, and Japan will secure exactly what she desires. In any event, the western powers may console themselves with the thought that Japan has been an apt pupil. Too apt for comfort! CONFUCIUS...