Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pouncing without search-warrants, police began a campaign of bursting into homes and meeting places of Communists all over Germany, ransacking them for treasonable documents which they claimed to find in quantities. Communists retorted by firing from rooftops and darkened windows on their tormentors, caused the Berlin police to create "searchlight squads." Before the week was out 26 Germans-Communists, police and Fascists-had been murdered for reasons purely political (mostly in savage side-street affrays...
...attack on the American public school. The reason for his diatribe, needless to say, is the depression. The public schools, it appears, are spending now about $100 per child each year, where in 1880 they spent $5. Obviously, such an increase as this offers a loophole to one in search of reductions, if only it can be shown to be unjustified. This task Mr. Mencken assumes, asking the natural question: "Has the increase in intelligence among the products of the schools been at all comparable to the increase in the cost of education...
This first question be answers, as the majority would, in the negative, claiming that the high-school graduate of today is, if anything, more stereotyped and dull than his predecessor. If this is true, or even partly true, the search for the leak must be elsewhere. Mr. Mencken finds this cause of waste in the growth of special classes for the backward and in the large number of various sorts of experts which infest every modern school. Actually, there is another and even worse cause for growing expenditures: this is the movement towards a large number of courses in every...
...little Directory of Directors in the City of New York-handy who's who of corporate management. Though it included only directors with Manhattan addresses, 40,000 are listed in the new edition, a slight decrease from last year. Observed the publishers: "In their search for economy a number of corporations have reduced the size of their boards of directors...
...half hour it will be on exhibition, although students will not be able to take screen tests. Tests, in connection with a search for new screen talent, are being given in Boston, and those interested may obtain information from the attendant in charge...