Word: wirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course Dr. Wirt may have thought it up by himself, but there is a fairly familiar odor of Ham and Fish about it all. The doctor is the head of public school system in Gary, Indiana, one of the larger fiefs in the domain of the United States Steel Corporation, named in honor of the late lord of that house. Judge Gary's ghost, outraged at what the Code Age has done to his life work, must be haunting the purlieus of Gary nightly and scaring the good doctor to death...
...Wirt is on his way to Washington to tell all he knows about the Bright Young Men and their nefarious plans regarding Franklin D. "Kerensky" Roosevelt. Times change. It is so short a time ago that Secretary Kellogg was peeking nervously under his official bed every night looking for Reds, While, the whole Administration shuddered. Now the citizenry is looking under the beds and shuddering to find a Red Administration there...
...James H. Rand Jr. (Remington-Rand), chairman of the Committee for the Nation. Mr. Rand's Committee, which was all in favor of devaluating the dollar, is all against the Exchange bill. Solemnly Mr. Rand read the Committee an extraordinary memorandum which he had received from William Albert Wirt of Gary. Ind. Dr. Wirt, now 60, is superintendent of Gary's school system and one of the most famed schoolmen in the U. S. He is the inventor of the "platoon school," an educational plan by which classes are divided up. given alternate hours of class work. vocational...
...than nothing. Any escape from present miseries would be welcome, even though it should turn out to be another misery." Representatives who heard these words fairly twittered with excitement. Congressman Alfred L. Bulwinkle of North Carolina promptly introduced a resolution for an investigation. Meantime the Press hunted up Dr. Wirt in Gary. Said he: "I meant every word of it and I'll have more to say if I am called before an investigating committee in Washington. . . . Whether I shall give the names of my informers I shall decide at the time. "There are lists of Congressmen who oppose...
...steel code was being set down in black & white, General Johnson tackled the oil men. All his hard-boiled energy could not get them to agree with one another. Chief split was on price fixing. One group including Harry F. Sinclair, Kenneth R. Kingsbury of Standard Oil of California, Wirt Franklin, president of the Independent Petroleum Association, wanted complete price fixing from well to consumer. The other group including the representatives of Standard Oils of New Jersey and Indiana, Texas Co., Royal Dutch Shell, Gulf, Sun, Atlantic, favored only that oil should not be sold below cost, opposed complete price...