Word: tigert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington a tall muscular man with a thick black mop of hair. His "good morning" to attendants who were just beginning to recognize him was quick, incisive. He was Dr. William John Cooper, Commissioner of Education in the U. S. Department of the Interior, succeeding tireless Dr. John James Tigert, now president of the University of Florida...
...Confirmed the nomination of William J. Cooper to be Commissioner of Education, succeeding John J. Tigert...
...Commissioner of Education John James Tigert, 46, handed last week his resignation to Secretary of the Interior Roy O. West and announced that he had accepted the presidency of the University of Florida...
...John J. Tigert, U. S. Commissioner of Education...
...Schoolteachers were glum, but some other persons cheered, when President Coolidge chose not to proclaim an American Education Week this year. In 1923, 1924, 1925 he proclaimed this "Week" but not last year, when U. S. Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert advised it was unnecessary. The President's secretary, Everett Sanders, explained this year to President Cornelia S. Adair of the National Education Association: "The President has expressed himself fully as to his convictions on the value of education and holds that to rephrase such sentiments tends rather to weaken them...