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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valet, were, "Please put out the light." But the light of the life of Theodore Roosevelt no American could put out. Even as he was dying, his country was throbbing with new vitality and new hope. Even as he was dying, his last words to the American people were read to a rip-roaring ail-American benefit at the Hippodrome in New York. Said Theodore Roosevelt: "I cannot be with you. and so all I can do is wish you Godspeed...
...that evening, Churchill's private secretary read a roomful of correspondents a 26-word bulletin signed by both doctors: Sir Winston had pneumonia and pleurisy. It was the fourth attack of pneumonia in Sir Winston's 83 years, and, said Dr. Roberts, "everything is troublesome to a man of his age." The world waited edgily for the next communiqu...
...attack upon some other targets. Among them: ¶ Automatic promotion : "The elementary teachers are told that a child must not fail nor be held back because he will be 'unhappy.' But will he be happy when he reaches the upper grades and finds himself still unable to read effectively?" ¶ The dogma that the school is responsible for the "whole" child: "As long as instruction for social living takes precedence over those subjects which are designed to equip the student to take his place as a member of the human race, not just his local community, then education...
Household Goods. In Milwaukee, a for-sale ad in the Journal read: "Washer; wringer; new encyclopedia; shotgun; wedding dress...
Design for Living. In Knoxville, Tenn., an employment ad in the Journal read: "Young married couple desires young lady to stay in home as companion to wife. Prefer one who sings Hillbilly songs...