Word: schooler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Rupp was downcast to the point of desperation. He went immediately to Washington, secured permission to take another eyesight test. Then he visited an employment agency, asked for a young man "to help run a gas station." From likely candidates he selected Paul David Schooler, a youth of 19 not unlike himself in size and appearance. He gave Schooler $15 and a careful explanation. Next day, a youth calling himself Henry Sherwin Rupp appeared at the Navy Department to take a re-examination in vision for the U. S. Naval Academy...
...Second School represented at the Conference desires to burst through the bureaucratic, stereotyped agenda. An ardent "Second Schooler'' is President Isidore Ayora of Ecuador. His words: "It is necessary to step from verbal and declamatory Pan-Americanism to ... . concrete Pan-Americanism ... to the effective and total recognition of identical rights for all American states . . . repelling the possibility that there may exist or could exist, governments or peoples that domineer...
This, the Second School wants to force the U. S. to cease to "domineer"?in Nicaragua, for instance (See NICARAGUA). Another prominent Second Schooler is black President Louis Borno of Haiti who demands "mutual Pan-American respect of liberty, independence and territorial integrity." Another is President Augusto B. Leguia of Peru: "The two Americas, different in origin, will (must) be equal in their final destiny...