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...usual, the educators were most distressed by their financial plight and by the Federal Government's failure to succor them. George Frederick Zook's swansong as U. S. Commissioner of Education was a harsh honk at President Roosevelt for blocking the gift of $75,000,000 which he was sure the House wanted to make to schools. Education's submerged "masses," the classroom teachers complained that many a city was dismissing them wholesale in favor of young, cheap substitutes...
When George Frederick Zook turned down the presidency of University of Iowa last fortnight most observers supposed it was because he liked his present job as U. S. Commissioner of Education. But last week he handed in to Secretary Ickes his resignation, effective July 1. He will then become director of the American Council on Education, a War-born bod)' which coordinates the work of 22 national education organizations and 233 colleges & universities. Into his U. S. Commissionship on Sept. 1, for one year only, will step Des Moines' Superintendent of Schools, John Ward Studebaker...
Last week in a big, bright room on the eighth floor of its Chicago administration building was held a corporation's annual meeting for which the build-up had been long & loud. The horrid-sounding charges which Joseph I. Zook, as head of a self-appointed stockholders protective "association," had been hurling at Montgomery Ward's management insured good attendance. Even the Armour brothers, Philip and Lester, dropped in to pick up a few pointers from Ward's quick-witted President-Chairman Sewell Lee Avery...
...stockholder moved that Mr. Avery's $100,000 salary be halved. Some of Mr. Zook's friends cheered loudly. "There is evidently quite a little enthusiasm for cutting my salary," Mr. Avery remarked cheerily, pointing out that only the directors could do that. He declared that he paid out 56½% of his salary in income taxes...
...Zook's attack enlarged in cartoons on the idea that Mr. Avery's Gypsum was dumping building materials on Ward. In one cartoon never mailed, Mr. Avery explained, "there were three central figures: a cow, a milk pail and myself. The cow represented Montgomery Ward, the pail U. S. Gypsum, and I was put in the nattering position of doing something about which I know nothing...