Word: schurz
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First U. S. kindergarten was started in 1856 in Watertown, Wis. by Mrs. Carl Schurz, wife of the famed Thuringian revolutionary who became Lincoln's Minister to Spain, Hayes's Secretary of the Interior and the first German-born citizen to sit in the U. S. Senate.* Under such auspices the kindergarten soon attracted philanthropists. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph, opened one for the children in her husband's mining community at Lead, S. Dak. and financed the Parent-Teachers' Association mainly to promote the kindergarten movement...
...Chicago Federation of Musicians and forbade them last fortnight to make recordings after Feb. i (TIME, Jan. 4). As Draconic as ever, Mr. Petrillo refused to have 12 young students and teachers play for the convention because they did not belong to his union, would not let the Carl Schurz, High School Choir sing for the teachers until its three accompanists had each paid a $12 "standby" fee. Officials in the; Teachers Association grumbled that Mr.' Petrillo had "practically eliminated" Chicago as a future convention ground. The Chicago News bit deeper: "Mr. Petrillo's ungracious act will suggest...
...June 1935 svelte, socialite Mrs. Helen Appleton Read, lecturer and long-time art critic of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, sailed to Germany to organize a monumental loan exhibition of German art for the U. S. with the backing of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation and the Oberlaender Trust. Nazi officials at first were suspicious, but Mrs. Read had a fine argument for Minister for Propaganda Goebbels and Minister for Culture Rust: the French Government had won great and favorable publicity in the U. S. by loan exhibits of the 18th-Century French masters. Would Germany do less...
...Winsauer '36 of Chicago was elected Ivy Orator it was revealed last night. He prepared at Carl Schurz School and lives in Kirkland House...
Colored reproductions of German paintings of the Middle Ages and of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and also reproductions of medieval German prints make up the exhibits. All the expesses of the travelling collections this winter have been borne by the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation of New York City...