Word: sealock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nebraska's Senator George William Norris found on his desk last week a letter from onetime President William Elmer Sealock of the Municipal University of Omaha. In it the complaint was made that Senator Norris' old enemy, the power interests, had cost Dr. Sealock his job. There was nothing Senator Norris could do, though, because William Elmer Sealock was dead...
...rock-ribbed a private Presbyterian institution as ever had a 9 o'clock curfew for students under 18. One year of Depression was enough to break it and in 1931 the city took it over. The school board appointed nine regents and the regents called Dean Sealock of the Uni-versity of Nebraska College of Education to put the university on its feet...
President Sealock arrived in Omaha tingling with conviction that the future of higher education lay with municipal institutions. His first contribution to that future was to shake out of the faculty a quantity of Presbyterian preachers. His second was to replace them with young Ph.D.'s. The new instructors, with their liberal leanings, proved Dr. Seacock's undoing. Few months ago word got out that he was at odds with fully half the regents, including their Chairman James Edward Davidson...
...Nebraska spelled backwards), Omaha's Mardi Gras. In 1929. by courtesy of the American Legion, he was First Citizen of Omaha. He is president of Nebraska Power Co., past president of the National Electric Light Association. Mr. Davidson was reported dissatisfied with ihe disrespectful treatment which Dr. Sealock's young instructors gave private ownership of public utilities...
Last spring Omaha students, assembling in mass meeting, charged that Dr. W. H. Thompson, Dean of Men, hired some of their number with FERA money to sit in on classes, report radical statements by professors. Regretfully Dr. Sealock said that there was such a spy system. The regents said there was not. Three weeks ago Dr. Sealock was voted out of office...