Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayors voiced warm approval when Orator Wales proposed that money be collected "for a new fund to be called King George's Jubilee Trust For Youth." Listeners, wondering on what this money will be spent, heard H. R. H. read with feeling the part about "A new Youth Movement, non-militaristic but social!", then the part about "there is no intention to create any new juvenile organizations." The Jubilee money will be split, it presently appeared, among the Boy Scouts, the Girl Guides, the Church Lads Brigade and such...
...been hounding liberal teachers as Reds and renegades to U. S. ideals. The meeting began with Columnist Heywood Broun boxing the shadow as valiantly as he could without naming names. Historian Charles Austin Beard, who once taught at Columbia, followed him. Hawk-nosed, white-haired, clean-shaven Dr. Beard read his speech, made the point that education should be "a scholarly, balanced presentation of facts." Finished, he looked up, said slowly: "Some people, I am told, don't want this kind of teaching-among them, William Randolph Hearst." The shadow had been named. The audience came to attention...
Sixty dollars a month for eight months of the year is the average salary of North Carolina public school teachers. That is about equal to the wages of textile workers. Last fortnight North Carolinians were shocked, ashamed to read in the Raleigh News and Observer this "job-wanted" advertisement...
...Washington, D. C., Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., 19, opened an envelope from the War Department and read those words of Adjutant General James F. McKinley. Great was the pride of handsome, serious-minded Cadet-select Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., son of a West Pointer (1911) now attached to the War College, and only living great-grandson of one of the Military Academy's most famed graduates, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson, Lieut.-General, Confederate States Army...
...read the editorial aright, you advise Freshmen to offer less than they are capable of paying for rooms in the Houses. This seems to me had advice from the standpoint not only of the individual Freshman but of the College as a whole. Since the demand for cheap rooms is greater than the supply, a student who offers less than he can afford increases the chances that he can not be provided for in a House. Insofar as students who can afford to pay higher prices succeed in securing rooms in the lower middle price range, they reduce for their...