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...step nearer solving the Allston urchin problem, Brooks House announced yesterday that its plan for keeping the huge Smith playground back of the Business School open during the winter months and staffed by Harvard volunteers has been favorably received by Boston Park Commissioner William Long...
Before 3,500 people in Chicago's huge Civic Opera House last week, the Men's Teachers Union, Federation of Women High School Teachers. Elementary Teachers Union and Playground Teachers Union dissolved, buried their differences, received from Irvin R. Kuenzli. secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers, a charter as the Chicago Teachers Union. Local No. 1 of the Federation. With 6,500 members, one-half the total teaching staff of Chicago's public schools. the largest and most powerful teachers' union in the U. S. was born...
...news editor of the London Star. Editor Morgan's mission was a carefully planned, 48-hour sightseeing tour of New York City. He had planned it carefully so as to omit nothing of interest. If Editor Morgan's preconception of New York was something between a community playground and an outsized booby-house, he found little to surprise...
...last week the songwriting team which gave the world Is It True What They Say About Dixie?, Composer Gerald Marks & Lyricist Irving Caesar, journeyed from Tin Pan Alley northward to Teachers College at Columbia University to address a summer class in "Safety Care." The class-students, health educators and playground supervisors from all over the U. S.-soon were beating time to fox trots and waltzes with such words...
...back of his limousine behind a portable desk, going over his mail. On arriving at his office he may begin dictating to two secretaries at once, then plunge into a series of 15-minute conferences with officials and delegations wanting favors, then dash off to dedicate a playground or unveil a statue, thence drive across a borough or two to speak at a civic luncheon, dictating orders as he goes to a secretary who can telephone them back to city hall while he is speaking. An hour later he may be back at his office to see a queue...