Word: stanwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teachers. If U. S. education, out of step with the industrial 20th Century, was ripe for change when Dewey arrived, it was not yet ready to plump for any such apparently helter-skelter scheme as this and Progressive Education made little headway before 1918. That fall one Stanwood Cobb, an instructor in Annapolis' severely traditional U. S. Naval Academy, rounded up a few progressive educators, formed the Progressive Education Association...
Died. Gretchen von Briesen (Mrs. Salomon Stanwood) Menken, 58, most overdressed woman in Manhattan cafe society; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Nearly every year, since 1924, Mrs. Menken dazzled the Beaux-Arts Ball with her costumes. As "Rain," she carried a set of batteries beneath her skirt to light 1,500 tiny bulbs sprinkled on her dress, wore a red neon headgear which flashed intermittent lightning. As "The Empire State Building Plans'' she wore T-squares and French scrolls around her neck, pencils and empty India ink bottles on her hat. For the New York World...
Wrote Paramount's hardworking, socialite Arthur Menken-son of famed and dressy Manhattan matron Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken-in a chatty letter received by his Manhattan chiefs last week: "The first few bombs went wide of the mark, splashing into ponds between the power house and the hotel, too close for comfort but . . . very nice for pictures. The following planes came in with greater accuracy and dropped three eggs directly on the structure itself. . . . During this attack . . . the Chinese anti-aircraft with, I believe, .50 calibre machine guns brought down a plane directly in front of the building...
...Spanish Relief opened a drive for $500,000 with a pageant, "Democracy Imperiled," presented in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. To dramatize the plight of Rightist Spanish civilian sufferers, hundreds of Catholic school children marched in tatters and red-smeared bandages. To represent "Spain" Socialite Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, whose Son Arthur was wounded last October while filming Spanish battle scenes, appeared in one of the spangled costumes in which she annually dazzles the Beaux-Arts Ball...
...Jerome Himelhoch 56 Philip Truman Shahan 52 Paul Massik 46 Carlos Colton Daughaday, Jr. 45 Alvah Woodbury Sulloway 42 Joseph Franklin 30 1939 Ballot *Francis Austin Harding, Jr. 132 *Richard Howard Sullivan 120 *Joseph Spence Harvin 106 Charles Lee Burwell 105 Richard Peter Hedblom 95 Cleveland Amory 82 Richard Stanwood Benner 74 Oliver Payne Bolton 70 Robert Alexandre Sears 68 Frank Paul Davidson 61 Robert M. Bunker 57 Henry Edwards Russell 56 Ulysses John Lupien, Jr. 51 Richard Russell Flood 50 Caleb Foote 49 Charles Dickey Dyer, 3rd. 37 Robert Maurice Ravven...