Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appointed a new head of the Farm Credit Administration. Accepting "with sincere regret" the resignation of FCA Governor William I. Myers, who is returning to Cornell to teach, Franklin Roosevelt promoted Deputy Governor Forrest Frank Hill to his job. "Frosty" Hill has been with FCA since it was created in 1933 to merge a handful of uncoordinated agencies and save the U. S. farmer from foreclosure. As a boy he worked on a wheat farm in Saskatchewan, got a first-hand knowledge of soil problems. A shrewd banker with an incredible memory for figures, Governor Hill still talks like...
...authors, Winifred Watson, a St. Paul public-school teacher, and Julius M. Nolte of University of Minnesota, acted on the advice of Ralph Waldo Emerson to "smuggle" into grammar teaching "a little contraband wit, fancy, imagination, thought." Their defense for trying to teach grammar painlessly: modern children not only find grammar study dull but arrive in high school and college knowing wretchedly little about...
...members, some of them cultured refugees from the old country, had unusual zeal for learning. In 1917 the young union started an education department, got famed Historian Charles A. Beard as consultant, opened a night-time Workers' "University" in Manhattan's Washington Irving High School, to teach labor doctrine and American history. Today I. L. G. W. U.'s education department spends $200,000 a year, has some 22,000 members enrolled in more than 600 study groups in 58 cities, 25 States, three Canadian provinces. At its anniversary celebration in Washington Irving High School this week...
...Hochman and the union's able educational director, British-born Mark Starr, think that a worker is not fully educated in high school or college. Purpose of their workers' education program: to remove "prejudices" acquired in public schools, fill gaps, give workers "realistic" attitudes toward labor, teach them how a union works...
Immediately Leary issued a statement berating the voters for electing him. Then he demanded a recount "to cause trouble and annoyance and teach people not to vote for him ever again...