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...like patience and spider-like persistence, the N. E. A. has sought to have a U. S. Secretary of Education installed in the President's cabinet, together with an Assistant Secretary, empowered to take over the present functions (advisory, informative) of the Bureau of Education (Department of the Interior). Usually, repetition of this urgent desire is postponed by the N. E. A. to the resolution-adopting session at the close of the conference...
...Grant 3rd,* Army officer in charge of public buildings in the Capital, reported to the House Appropriations Committee that the roof of the White House has settled since 1912, when it was repaired, that the trusses supporting it have slipped and that much of its weight now rests on interior partitions. He said the roof should be repaired and the attic rebuilt, but it would cost $500,000 and the President did not approve of the expenditure at present...
Late despatches asserted that no explanation of these acts had been made public by the Calles Government. Meanwhile Mexican soldiers seized "all movable or immovable property owned by priests either openly or in the names of other individuals." Señor Tejada, Secretary of the Interior, refused to be interviewed by correspondents. Said he: "We are not going to talk any more but are going...
...Washington, a body called the National Commission on Economy and Efficiency of the Business Administration of School Systems was appointed by joint action of Secretaries Hoover of Commerce and Work of the Interior, and Dr. Frank W. Ballou of the National Education Association. What called this formidable-sounding organization into existence? Simply this: U. S. taxpayers, while believing in their public schools, are not altogether satisfied that education is run in a businesslike way. The nation's yearly two-billion-dollar public education bill is twice that of 1920, four times that...
...museum is 234 feet across the front and 123 feet deep. The front portion along Quincy Street will contain two stories of exhibition galleries with a top light furnishing the light for the upper story. Behind the exhibition part of the building is an in interior court, 57 by 44 feet, surrounded on four sides by two stories of arcades built of Italian Travertine. The rear portion will contain the library, Class 'rooms, and executive offices. A night entrance in the rear of the building will make it possible to open the lecture hall in the evenings without throwing open...