Word: uel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pyrtle. Uel Walter Lamkin's term as president of the N. E. A. expired. Elected to succeed him was Miss E. Ruth Pyrtle of Lincoln, Neb., who sailed immediately following the conference to attend conventions of the World's Federation of Education Associations and the American Association of University Women in Switzerland...
Prohibition. The conference was opened by N. E. A.'s President Uel Walter Lamkin. His message and plea: there should be no Federal dictation in educational matters. Thus, curtly, was dismissed the suggestion that all U. S. educators use Prohibition propaganda in their schools and text books (see p. 10). That Federal project had given N. E. A. members something new to think about. For years the N. E. A. has advocated the establishment of a U. S. Department of Education with a representative in the Cabinet. How much more likely, wondered observers, would the Government be to "dictate...
Election. A hot contest,waged by badges, buttons and posters, for the Association presidency between supporters of Uel W. Lamkin, President of Northwestern Missouri State Teachers' College, and of Dr. Francis G. Blair, State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Illinois, was won by the latter...