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...United States of Brazil last month were given a new Constitution by their Dictator. Last week at a great open-air ceremony in Rio de Janeiro attended by Dictator-President Getulio Vargas, the Cabinet, highest army and navy officers and thousands of workers and schoolchildren, 20 Girl Scouts solemnly burned the flags of each of the 20 United States of Brazil upon an altar. Meanwhile the President had hoisted a large national flag. Simultaneously schoolchildren representing each of the 20 States hoisted 20 small national flags. Thus was symbolized the new Constitution's extinction of States' rights...
...deeply forested, lake-strewn country of Finland was celebrating a national festival. Every Finnish hamlet was gaily festooned and beflagged. Schoolchildren had the day off. Deputations from the provinces and from many foreign countries, converging on Helsingfors, the capital,, bore testimonials signed by many a foreign bigwig. At night the festivities culminated in a gigantic concert in the city's largest auditorium, with two symphony orchestras and a choir of 500 voices. There were 8,000 people in the audience. In places of honor sat President Svin-hufvud, Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim and the visiting Prime Ministers of Denmark...
...Secretary Shiebler decided two years ago that "the law requires the superintendent to make an annual report but does not require that it be dull." With the Board of Education photographer. Ambrose J. Hickey, he spent six months touring New York City's vast school system to catch schoolchildren in unguarded moments...
There are 29,000,000 U. S. public schoolchildren, but the Speyer School is the only U. S. public school for children mentally gifted.* It was created in Manhattan in February 1936 by the city's Board of Education and Columbia's Teachers College, and since that time grey-haired, motherly Professor Leta Stetter Hollingworth has carefully guarded her brood from the adulatory and meddlesome attentions of the public. But this week, entranced by the educational message in a series of unposed candid-camera pictures of her 8 t011-year-old charges taken during the past few months...
Largest single purchaser of textbooks in the U. S., Texas buys books for all elementary schoolchildren in the State, spends some $2,000,000 a year. Its "adoption" of a book means it will buy that book exclusively for five years. Of seventh-grade histories, it was estimated, Texas would purchase some $234,000 worth all told...