Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last June Congress passed a law denying pay checks to any District of Columbia public school teacher who should "teach or advocate" Communism. Followed loud arguments as to what "teaching" Communism meant. To William Randolph Hearst the issue was perfectly simple. Explained his New York American: "The word 'teaching' as used in the statutes in conjunction with the word 'advocating' covers the whole field and PROHIBITS INSTRUCTION AS WELL AS ADVOCACY." But to E. Barrett Prettyman, corporation counsel for the District of Columbia, "teaching" meant outright advocacy, did not mean a factual, unbiased treatment...
...purpose of their camps. He stressed the fact that every person should study social and economic problems in these days; should attempt to discover the causes of our present plight, and then should help to combat the evils. An attempt will be made, Mr. Hoiberg said, to teach personal enrichment in leisure time...
Along this line, Alden Krider & wife, professional puppeteers, "plan to teach the women to do this kind of work and to have each camp write its own plays and make ten puppets." Miss Helen Olson offers expert vocational guidance. Miss Davida Olinger, just back from three years' teaching in Persia, "will give lectures on her experiences and knowledge of the Oriental world...
...teach his men their positions, the talent is there and the team which lost to Andover on a fluke ruling of a ball which hit a crossbar and bounced out, and suffered a tie with Exeter when a fullback missed his kick, has some surprises in store for Dartmouth, Brown, Worcester, Tufts, and Yale...
Give this team a little fighting spirit, teach them their positions, and watch them...