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...unanimous choice: he had won by a bare 4-to-3 vote over highly touted Willard E. Goslin, superintendent of the Minneapolis schools, whose main handicap was being an outlander. In two years at Minneapolis, drawling, down-to-earth Willard Goslin had won higher pay for teachers, opened new schools, overhauled the study program, been voted Citizen No. 2 (after Sister Kenny), and attracted national attention. The pro-Goslin New York Herald Tribune, "depressed and disheartened" by Jansen's appointment as superintendent, called it the choice "of the man next in line, the insider who knows the ropes...
After an evening of warm-up speeches, they went into closed session in the Willard Hotel's Congressional Room. When they emerged they had a name (Americans for Democratic Action), a bankroll ($9,-300), and a 25-man organizing committee, loaded with headline names: labor leaders Walter Reuther and Dave Dubinsky; A.V.C.'s chairman and Rhodes Scholar Charles Bolte; ex-OWI Boss Elmer Davis; U.D.A.'s Chairman Reinhold Niebuhr; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (Eleanor Roosevelt was present, but she begged off serving on the committee). As cochairmen, the committeemen picked old New Dealer Leon Henderson...
...Washington, N.E.A.'s Executive Secretary Willard Givens called on teachers throughout the U.S. to organize "salary committees," and hit their school boards for general raises. It was a surprising change of front for N.E.A., which includes not only classroom teachers but school administrators...
...education system is responsible for the average American's political naivete and gullibility, the sooner the necessary steps can be taken to correct the conditions and institutions involved. It would be far wiser to divert the funds involved from Army Information and Education to the subsidization of school systems. Willard Hertz...
...Peter Fuller, Justin E. Gale, John C. Grady, Alexander L. Grant, Jr., Charles C. Graves, 3rd, William S. Harrison, Peter G. Harwood, George H. Hill, Ellis D. Hodge, Paul C. Kelly, Osmund O. Keiver, Jr., John C. Loos, Jr., Charles G. Loring, Jr., Leonard S. Lunder, Robert L. Matters, Willard H. McDaniel, John C. McKeon, Kennedy B. Middendorf, Thomas C. Moseley, Thaddeus E. Mroz, Henry F. Noonan, Frank H. Powell, Francis R. Powers, Stephen M. Quigley, James A. Robinson, Donald H. Stone, Thomas Quintin Sullivan, John F. Walsh, Lewis G. Warren, Jr., James F. Waterhouse, Thomas G. Wilson, and Manager...