Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 250 U. S. grownups met solemnly in Manhattan to ponder the significance of the children's museum movement. All of them hailed it as a step forward in progressive education. Dr. William G. Vinal of Massachusetts State College called them "workshops in democracy . . . laboratories of patriotism...
...Crimson" called the Undergraduate Faculty "a fundamental cure to a few of the 'one-third, of the nation who are ill-fed, ill-clothed and ill-housed." To merit this praise, how can the Undergraduate Faculty after half a year of existence show that preconditioning is the first step towards a fundamental cure? This question would be difficult to answer five years from now and impossible today. The long-range results of education cannot be measured in statistical units...
...Cambridge home after the appointment, "I'm not confirmed yet." Ten years ago, getting Fighter Frankfurter, defender of Tom Mooney and of Sacco & Vanzetti, by the Senate would have meant a sizable fight. Last week Tom Mooney walked out of jail, and it seemed that Felix Frankfurter would step as easily into the Supreme Court. Felix Frankfurter had become so relatively inoffensive that last September the arch-conservative legal profession, Gallup-polled, gave him five times as many votes for the Court as any other candidate. As a Senate subcommittee got busy to consider whether Felix Frankfurter should...
Mamba's Daughters (dramatized by Dorothy & DuBose Heyward from his novel; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is not another Porgy. It equals Porgy as a document on Negro dialect and folkways, has some exciting, a few touching moments. But if Mamba's Daughters took one step more it would topple over into sheer ten-twent-thirt...
Married. Wayne Morris (real name: Bert De Wayne Morris Jr.), 24, cinemactor (Kid Galahad, Valley of the Giants, Brother Rat); and Leonore ("Bubbles") Schinasi, 18. step-daughter of a late millionaire Manhattan tobacco importer; in Beverly Hills, Calif...