Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco Board of Education arbitrarily decreed that no teacher might work for or against any candidate for any local office (TIME, Jan. 3), it might have expected trouble. But it could hardly have anticipated the sort of embarrassment it suffered last week. Its challenger: conscientious Mary K. Ryan, president of the Teachers' Association of San Francisco and for 30 years one of the most respected teachers in the city...
Guided by Lawyer Joseph Alioto, Mary Ryan and five other prominent teachers wrote to Mayor Elmer Robinson urging him to reappoint Chairman Charles Foehn of the Board of Education, the only member to vote against the political gag. Then, just to make sure that their insubordination would be noticed, they wrote letters in favor of various candidates to the city health system and the city retirement system boards. Thus defied, the Board of Education faced a dilemma. Should it risk firing six of the city's top teachers? Or should it simply try to overlook the whole affair...
...TRANSPORTS will cost the airlines $1 billion over the next ten years in the changeover from piston-powered planes, predicts Civil Aeronautics Board Member Oswald Ryan. The outlay for jets will equal all airlines' current capital investment...
Died. Clarke S. Ryan, 31, an assistant U.S. Attorney under Thomas F. Murphy, who, after Murphy resigned to become New York City police commissioner, took over the Government's case against Alger Hiss; of polio; in Manhattan...
Change Partners. In Albuquerque, Ida Gutierrez Trujillo, mother of eight, filed a $15,000 alienation-of-affections suit against Dance Teacher Elsie Ryan Trujillo, charged that Elsie stole the love of Acquiles Trujillo by her demonstrations of the "hula-hula, hoochy-coochy, mambo and samba...