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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charges. One of the present seven school board members, ex-Councilman Vincent Sadlowski, who runs a tavern, was once indicted for accepting a bribe from a parking meter company (the case was dismissed). Two years ago, Board Member Eddie Kopek, who owns a laundry to which the board illegally gave $1,467.13 worth of business, was indicted for trying to sell the principalship of the Pulaski Elementary School (the indictment is still pending; Kopek resigned from the board last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Progress in Hamtramck | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Spectacular" demonstration of University sentiment in the shape of a full-scale puplic rally early in March will climax the program of the new Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan, student chairman Vincent P. Moravec '50 announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peabody Leads 'Save ERP' Rally in March | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

...Vincent P. Moravec '50, 1947 Varsity football captain, will carry the ball for European recovery as student chairman of the "Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan" which emerged from a meeting of 47 organization heads and Faculty members last night in the Adams House Upper Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moravec to Head 'Save Marshall Plan' Project | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

Student signers are: S. Douglass Cater '46 1PA; Selig S. Harrison '48, CRIMSON president; Frederic D. Houghteling '50, HLU president; Stanley G. Karson '49, chairman of the Harvard AVC; Charles Lipton '48, president of PBH; Vincent P. Moravec '50, 1947 varsity football captain; Charles K. McWhorter 2L, of the Republican Open Forum; and Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, Student Council president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students, Faculty Frame Marshall Plan Support | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

Right Thinking for $6. The movement (it soon became that) was started in 1874 at Lake Chautauqua, N.Y. by John Vincent, a young New Jersey minister, and a businessman friend from Akron named Lewis Miller. By 1900, what had begun as an open air "Sunday School Teachers' Assembly" for 40 young people (two weeks of clean living and right thinking for $6) had expanded into an association that ran a school of theology, a correspondence-school university and a publishing house. To the "Mother Chautauqua" pavilion by the lake came U.S. Presidents, reformers, topnotch writers, singers, and actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uplift under the Big Top | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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