Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Mrs. Sturgis, widowed music-teacher with two growing daughters, Jeannette and Alice, could not make both ends meet, no matter how hard she tried. So Jeannette, at 18, weary of poverty and shabbiness. set out to find a job?in the days when nearly all women gave up their jobs when they married. She found one, and fell in love with young Roy Beardsley at the same time. Then the struggle began, as she rose in the business world and became private secretary to the head of her firm. She was earning as much as Roy; she loved...
...Kresge initiated the new department store chain on his 56th birthday. He began his career as a school-teacher at $22 a month, and after having been successively insurance agent, furnishings salesman, department store bookkeeper, tin-plate salesman, he went into business for himself with a capital of $8,000 with J. G. McCrory?now head of another large store system. From a single store in Detroit, the Kresge stores have expanded to a system of 223 stores throughout the country, which last year handled $65,000,000 of goods...
Tremendous steps have been taken in the administration of rural schools. The old one-teacher unit is going as fast as it can be replaced by grad-schools at convenient centers, served by fleets of motor buses. In Weld County, Colo., 26 modern school plants do the work of 85 weak schools. " Eighty warm, comfortable buses transport 2,510 children daily to the well equipped schools where they are taught by trained teachers." So speaks, not Mr. Babbitt, but the United States Department of the Interior. The central schools have auditoriums, community rooms, gymnasiums, athletic fields, libraries, lyceum courses...
Miss Mary McDowell, Quakeress school teacher who gave one-fifth of her income to the Red Cross, but was dismissed because, as a Quakeress, she believed war to be " immoral and unchristian," has been reinstated. The Board of Education of New York not only reversed its former act, but frankly and honestly acknowledges its guilt. " After full consideration of the ease the committee has decided that the punishment meted out to Miss McDowell was too severe. She was tried at a time of great public excitement. Since then public feeling has undergone considerable modification...
...first American teacher to go to England in the series of exchange visits proposed by Mrs. Alfred Lyttleton, Lady Astor's companion on her American trip last year (TIME, April 7), is Miss Martha Gill, of Stephen Girard School, Philadelphia. While Miss Gill visits in English homes, an English teacher is in return visiting in New England and Philadelphia...