Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Increasingly in recent months, an especially vigilant section of the vigilant U. S. Catholic press has accused much of the U. S. secular press of a bias on issues affecting Catholicism. In particular, the coverage of the Spanish war by such newspapers as the New York Times infuriates Catholic publicists. In America, sharply-edited Jesuit weekly, Rev. 'John A. Toomey, S. J. lately urged that Catholics bring their national organizations to bear on offending journals. Father Toomey pointed out that Jewish issues are never misrepresented for long in the U. S. press, in which Jews are important advertisers...
...been elaborately examined and catalogued, but until last week no one had ever looked lim right in the teeth. Last week U. S. teachers were examined physically and mentally, from toe to cerebellum. The National Education Association reported on the results of examining 5,150 teachers in every section of the U. S. The report Fit to Teach, painted this composite picture...
...must know meteorology, radio, aerial machine guns, bombs, battle formation. America today needs 100,000 pilots.* Five years hence, our need will be for 500,000 pilots. We need 30,000 planes before this year is out, 5,000 to be utilized in the schools of instruction in every section of the country. Five years hence, our equipment need will be for 100,000 planes...
...Philadelphia Orchestra. Dedicated to Frau Strauss & offspring, the symphony depicts scenes in the Strauss family circle. Philadelphians marveled & chuckled as Papa & Mama Strauss bickered, pleaded and brooded over the upbringing of Offspring Strauss. The argument realistically ended with Papa Strauss banging on the table (the whole brass section) and announcing that he would do pretty much...
...Jefferson's ideal must be achieved . . . our children will see what the world has never witnessed: a nation in which basic education is truly universal and careers are open to the talented drawn from every class and section of the land...