Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home from P.S. 42, where he was in the fourth grade (he would have skipped a grade except that he got scarlet fever), drank a glass of milk, and hurried across the street to paint, using an old muffin tin for a palette. "His talent," said his awed teacher, Philip Bibel, "is accompanied by the most amazing energy I have ever encountered.'' He painted cowboys, G-Men, scenes from movies, elevated trains, football players, his playmates, views of Claremont Parkway and Washington Avenue, and the scene that meets the suburban eye as frequently as any other-women pushing...
Before the State Board of Education had appeared Dr. William Card, onetime teacher at University of Wisconsin, now an organizer of the American Federation of Teachers. Dr. Card complained that spectacled, able young high-school teacher Stanley McMahon, president of a new teachers' union, and Union Member James Rowbottom had been fired from their Gilbert school jobs. Since 1931, said he, Gilbert's school board has fired 50 teachers "to make room for horsetrading and political favors." He found that all the Range towns had a teacher exchange system "more or less on the plan...
...Awarded its highest honor (life membership in the N. E. A.) to 19-year-old Virginia Sappington, a $70-a-month teacher in Piety Hill School, near Chetopa, Kans., who last March herded 21 children into a ditch and saved their lives before a tornado made splinters of the school building...
...Elected big, sandy-haired Reuben Taylor Shaw, a Philadelphia high-school teacher, as its president...
...ready to adjourn. Out it marched to the World's Fair, busily abuilding, made an honorary life member of onetime Teacher Eleanor Roosevelt. Presiding over the convention's final meeting, Mrs. Roosevelt introduced the main speaker. Said she: "It is the privilege of a presiding officer to make a speech. I will not avail myself of that privilege. May I present the President of the United States...