Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Sutter, now 35, was once a Pennsylvania school teacher.* She entered the Prohibition Bureau in 1922 when Roy Asa Haynes, a "loan" from the Anti-Saloon League, was its director. Mr. Haynes. zealot, yearned to-"sell" Prohibition to the country by direct advertising, by special school courses. Miss Sutter shared his ardor but it was not until this year that Congress supplied wherewithal for the experiment. She had prepared a mass of Dry material which she was to take to the National Education Association's meeting last week in Atlanta when, a little prematurely, she revealed her purpose...
...Sutter pamphlet was labeled: How shall we teach the Eighteenth Amendment? The Government's message to you. It began: "You realize a great difference for what . . . we will call 'temperance' teaching. . . . The Government needs the help and cooperation of every teacher from Maine to California ... in developing a consciousness of the proper attitude toward this...
When he went to school, Manhattan's Mayor James John Walker, world-famed playboy, pulled little girls' pigtails, set tacks on teacher's chair. Last week he was 48. In front of his own City Hall, he turned in a false fire alarm...
...actual attempt at U. S. annexation was reported last week from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Objecting to a lecture delivered by Miss Eileen Fields, their teacher, pupils in the Pike Lake School lustily shouted: "Down with the English!" They pasted on the blackboard a print of the U. S. flag, torn from the school's Book of Knowledge. A lad of twelve lowered his head and butted Miss Fields three times in the pit of the stomach...
...parents at the age of one. He stayed in the West Indies for eleven years. From an early age he drew, told other children what was wrong with their drawings, bought penny crayons. At eleven he was taken to Manhattan, where he attended a public grammar school. His drawing teacher encouraged him to continue at Stuyvesant High School, where Dr. Henry E. Fritz conducts special Saturday drawing classes and arranges an annual Metropolitan exhibit for the 30 most talented children (15 boys, 15 girls). "You needn't congratulate yourselves on your talent," Dr. Fritz tells his prot?...