Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association. One candidate, Caroline Woodruff of Vermont, arrived in Denver for the N. E. A. convention with a carload of maple syrup. Another candidate's followers rolled into Denver on a noisy "Annie Carlton Woodward Special" from Massachusetts. Annie Carlton Woodward's demagogic platform: "Elect a Classroom Teacher." Candidates Woodruff, Woodward and Agnes Samuelson of Iowa settled down to a week of strategic breakfasts, luncheons, teas...
...Youngest pupil is a girl of 16, oldest a Chicago concert singer named Marie Zendt, fiftyish. Though Miss Garden began teaching with great gusto and abandon, sometimes slapping a thigh for emphasis, her class last week persisted in feeling too religiously awed even to laugh at their teacher's quips...
...White Plains, N. Y., Mrs. Elizabeth T. Ross, high school teacher, was thoroughly mad. Suing for divorce, she charged Alfred C. Ross, certified public accountant, with 71 specific acts of cruelty, including 36 generally unhusbandly habits. Samples: He stayed in the bathroom for an hour and a half while dinner was waiting; he left an abusive diary lying around; he told guests they had obviously come just for the free meal; he took his vacations by himself; he called her extravagant and spent money on fishing tackle. Alfred Ross's countercharge: She had called him "a coward, pansy, bald...
...headquarters he explained: "I'm Heckter. I hail from up yonder by Weldon, Ark. One night maw was reading to me out of a book and she come across a sign that said somethin' about how you can learn to be a great singer from a teacher in Dallas. Maw made me a pretty new shirt, give me some money and showed me the road to git on comin' this way. I wasn't never in no city before today. A feller showed me a house and I talked to the folks and they give...
WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON: Beloved teacher and learned scholar, a former member of our faculty, now a leader in a vital experiment in education--the training of the college woman of today...