Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright, spots in Berlin was the busy office of the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe. Last week some 10,000 parcels of food, clothing and other goods from the U.S. poured into CARE's office in the city's Western sector. A white-haired, undernourished piano teacher wept openly as a CARE parcel containing a Christmas turkey was handed to her. "Someone I don't even know," she cried, "a Dr. Cohn of New York, sent this...
...salesman, Frank Baxter did not start out to be a teacher at all. He began as a waterboy in Philadelphia's Hammerstein opera house (he carried glasses of water to singers in the wings), later became a clerk and bookkeeper for a manufacturing company...
...Stalinist teaching on gradual, concealed, unnoticeable, quantitative changes that result in quick, qualitative, basic changes." He added: "Comrade Stalin is the embodiment of folk wisdom . . . He is the happiness of all the toilers of the world. Glory and long years of life and health to the leader and great teacher of the toilers, the coryphaeus* of science: Comrade Stalin...
Blackboard Labor. He took a job as traveling salesman for a textbook publishing company, and it was then that he got his big idea. In classroom after classroom, he had seen children laboriously copying off spelling drills from the blackboard. From his own experience, he knew that the teacher had probably spent hours thinking up the exercises. W.P. began to wonder whether there might not be a simpler way to carry on the drill...
...speller business and his idea has spread. Other publishers have long since begun turning out workbooks like Johnson's. Last week, at W.P.'s silver anniversary banquet, President Robie D. Marriner of the American Textbook Publishers Institute called the Johnson workbook "as significant as any contribution of teacher training itself during the last 25 years." To W.P., it was significant for another reason: it just went to show, he told banqueters, that a man can start with $100 and end up with a million, just by minding...