Word: truants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eternal Father who hast begirt us round with loving care, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, and has committed to us rules of reason as holy messengers of Thine: Forgive our foolish ways, capture our truant thoughts, direct our wandering wills, as once again with contrite hearts we fling ourselves as penitents in utter self-abasement upon the world's great altar stairs of prayer that slope through darkness up to Thee. . . . Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." With this prayer by Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips the U. S. Senate began its deliberations one noon last week...
...serious in believing that any medicine can be found which will restore a noticeable degree of health to the near corpse. He does go so far as to make a proposal that certain articles be hewed out of the Covenant in order to tempt back into the fold the truant nations, even perhaps, hoping that the United States and Soviet Russia as well will take a snap at the balt. But these diplomatic gestures can only be gestures. Mussolini is perfectly well aware that the Covenant can only be altered by a unanimous decision, and that France and all whom...
...What do we get for all that money? We get a huge array of expensive buildings, a huge horde of expensive quacks, an immeasurable ocean of buncombe . . . high-salaried experts in solving the insoluble and achieving the impossible ... a truant officer to fetch [the pupil] and police him, a dietitian to save him from scurvy and pellagra, a surgeon to remove his adenoids and tonsils, a dentist to plug his teeth, and a psychologist to chart the movements, if any, of his IQ . . . multitudes of special classes for backward pupils . . . struggling with the uneducable ... ten or twelve years of intensive...
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...Philadelphia, Negro Thomas Tolbert, io, was haled into Juvenile Court as a truant. His mother said she had told him to stay home until the teacher learned to call him Thomas Tolbert-El. his name as a member of the Moorish-American Mohammedan cult. Grand Sheik Joshua Way Bey came from Chicago to back her up, describe his organization which turns Negroes into Moors (turbans $3.50. polygamy permitted). Judge Charles L. Brown had Grand Sheik Joshua Way Bey hospitalized for examination, ordered Thomas Tolbert-El back to school...