Word: truants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need to apologize to Superintendent of Schools Jansen for its report on Harlem [TIME, May 17]. Eight years before his ". . . two-year-project to reduce delinquency in Harlem," I established a psychiatric clinic at P.S. 89, in deep Harlem, under the sponsorship of the boss of the Truant Officers, George Chatfield. My final report, after two years of zealous effort, is so close to your April 5th [review of] the present Harlem Report, that I shall spare you the actual comparisons. And this was six years before Jansen's special pleading that Harlem gangs "mimicked on the streets...
...felt urged to look about me at the large afternoon crowd. There were matronly house wives, fresh from the side of their kitchen ranges and their radios. There were truant school-boys looking for a weekly thrill to help let loose their natural energy. In front of me was a very young mother with her shopping bundles and a copy of the Boston Record on her lap, and beside her was what has been rightly called the hope of our country--a squirming baby...
...mental hygiene clinic for delinquents, boys' clubs and summer camps. It got after-hours jobs for the older boys. It organized child-psychology courses for parents and teachers. It negotiated truces between gangs. It investigated homes and health, gave psychiatric help to kids who needed it. Almost every truant and delinquent turned out to need such help...
...still faced with far from a short ballot, for he must choose 16 men to guide the destiny of Calais during 1948--moderator, clerk, selectmen, school directors, auditors, listers, trustees of public funds, cemetery commissioners, overseers of the poor, road commissioner, constable, law agent, grand, juror, health officer, truant officer, and the local old age officer...
...Whip Kenneth Wherry-and 23 GOPsters had loyally backed them up. But more significant was the fact that 20 Republicans had broken away to follow the lead of Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg in voting for confirmation. With 37 of the 44 Democrats voting or paired for approval, the truant Republicans provided the margin of victory. It was a personal triumph for Arthur Vandenberg...