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...Revised Standard Version of the Bible. 58. Appointed to succeed the late Lee Thurston as U.S. Commissioner of Education...
West Coast of Florida: Dec. 22. Dinner at 7:30 p.m., Thomas D. Bolles, speaker, at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club. Joseph M. Panjello 301.4 Wallace S. Bldg Annex, Tampa, Fla.; Worcester, Mass.: Dec. 29. 6:30 p.m. Judson Shaplin and Henry Lamar, speakers. Putnam and Thurston's, 29 Mechanics St. Lewis Wald, 54 Rockdale...
Just before he died after only two months as U.S. Commissioner of Education, Lee M. Thurston went on a search for a first-rate deputy. Last week the man he had in mind was named his successor: Samuel Miller Brownell, 53, brother of U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell...
Died. Lee M. (for Mohrmann) Thurston, 58, onetime Michigan superintendent of public education, recently appointed U.S. Commissioner of Education (TIME, June 29); of a coronary thrombosis; in Washington...
...spite of such perennial problems as the teacher shortage (72,000), U.S. Education Commissioner Lee Thurston reported that he was pleased with the U.S. public school system's record in general. Last year, said he, American taxpayers spent a record $7.5 billion on their schools, upped the average teacher's salary from $3,240 to $3,400. Furthermore, P.T.A. membership has doubled to 7,953,000 since 1946, and the number of citizens' committees interested in schools has multiplied eight times, to 8,000, since...