Word: system
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school to go to. Most of them were in poor farm areas that could not maintain a school. Hard times and a slump in real-estate tax collections (still the public schools' chief source of support) increased the number of unschooled children. The nation's public education system rallied from Depression three years ago, but this year was struck again by the backlash of the 1937 Recession. By last week so many distress signals flew over U. S. schoolhouses that educators were thoroughly alarmed...
While the Pennsylvania Property Owners Association warned that "Pennsylvania's public school system is doomed to early collapse," Pennsylvania's educators pleaded with economy-minded Governor Arthur H. James to replenish the special State fund for schools in distressed areas, now exhausted. Having pleaded in vain, nearly 200 teachers last week marched out of 27 schools in Northumberland and Schuylkill Counties, declared they would not go back until they were paid...
...greatest educational system in all history equip the American people to detect [these] ancient fallacies? . . . Why have so many educators been so easily persuaded to chase butterflies that will take all education as we have known it in America into oblivion? . . . To conclude . . . I think there is a basis for hope. . .. I think it is in the idea of noblesse oblige...
...long career of firsts: first woman to graduate from the Hopkins, first woman to teach there, first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute, first (and only) woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her account of the development of blood cells, her studies of the blood in tuberculosis, her testing of chemical substances isolated from the tubercle bacillus. In 1929 Dr. Simon Flexner, former head of the Institute, called her "the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time...
...Czechoslovakia's pre-Hitler censorship regulations forbade films that might "threaten the Czechoslovakian democratic system directly or indirectly through propaganda of a dictatorial regime...