Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That father was a young man who began earning his living at 16 as a school teacher. He never got a college education. He got a job as office boy in a small bank owned by his uncle. He went to Manhattan looking for a job, but did not find it, went on to Bridgeport, Conn., where he got a job as bank runner. He was promoted to bookkeeper, then teller. He heard of a new bank opening in Manhattan (the Astor Place Bank) and by sheer persistence worried its cashier into giving him a job. He was paying teller...
...Teacher tenure, i. e., discouragement of the "hire-and-fire" policy...
...Abolition of secret teacher-rating systems in boards of supervision...
...Elective (instead of appointive) boards of education, financially independent, acting as separate taxing bodies, having teacher and labor (small taxpayers) representation...
...Tennessee, where John Thomas Scopes recently filled the heavens by teaching Evolution (TIME, May 18 et seq.), came the news that Dayton's High School is to have one Raleigh E. Valentine Reece, reporter on The Nashville Tennessseean, as a teacher in the place of the aforesaid John Thomas Scopes, ousted...