Word: stoddard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schools are concerned, Los Angeles is not noted as a city of peace and quiet. Not so long ago, right-wing critics raised such a fuss that the schools dropped a special UNESCO-sponsored study program. Later, Superintendent Alexander Stoddard was forced to turn down a Ford Foundation grant for the recruiting of teachers because the same sort of critics charged that the foundation was following the Communist line...
...your Aug. 3 account of my forced resignation from the presidency of the University of Illinois . . . there is one item that constitutes a misstatement: "Last winter he [Stoddard] got into a fight with Illinois Governor William G. Stratton, who refused as unreasonable Stoddard's request for more than a half million dollars to set up a university TV station." Actually, the Governor never received any such request from the university . . . The maximum amount approved by the board of trustees was $175,000 per year. Since the Governor would not approve the total university askings, which included this item...
GEORGE D. STODDARD President...
...tempered, sometimes highhanded man, President Stoddard was anything but a diplomat with legislators. Complained one trustee: "How would you like to go to Springfield to get some money from the legislature and be asked by everybody in the corridors: 'When are you going to fire Stoddard...
Last week the trustees (including ex-Football Hero "Red" Grange) gave their answer. By a vote of 6 to 3, they expressed "no confidence" in President Stoddard, who promptly resigned...