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...Service, the President appointed Margaret M. Hanna, 41 years a clerk and minor official in the State Department. Secretary Hull was still playing chess with his Department. Having recently consolidated his Eastern and Western European Divisions into one Division of European Affairs, he called in as new chief, J. Pierrepont Moffat, son-in-law of Ambassador to Japan Joseph Clark Grew, from his Consulate at Sydney. For James Clement Dunn was created an important new post, adviser on political relations...
...York's Board of Examiners in 1934 unanimously rejected his application for a principal's license. Last week Teacher Jaffe, still awaiting the result of an appeal to the city's Board of Superintendents, filed another appeal with State Commissioner of Education Frank Pierrepont Graves. Although statistically Teacher Jaffe has one chance in 30 of persuading Commissioner Graves to interfere, his action moved the Board to consider how many and what kind of words. if any, a New York school principal might mispronounce without prejudicing his chances of advancement...
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...Albany, New York's Commissioner of Education Frank Pierrepont Graves reinstated Teacher Carrie Hynie of Highland Falls. Teacher Hynie, who had been dismissed in February for using a 12-in. ruler on the knuckles of Frances Sanders, 11, appealed to Commissioner Graves, explained: "Frances did not have her geography book. I tapped her very lightly once and her only outcry was 'Ouch.' " Ruled Commissioner Graves: "The use of corporal punishment under the circumstances related is insufficient cause for removal...
...Albany last week, a short, trim schoolteacher pivoted daintily, smiled up at Frank Pierrepont Graves, New York State Commissioner of Education. Commissioner Graves blinked, recognized Rose...