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Last week, well pleased with Mrs. Pixley's program, the Los Angeles school board gave her the high-sounding title of "Supervisor of Moral and Spiritual Values for the School System of the City of Los Angeles...
Politically a conservative Republican, she fights anyone-unions or real-estate boards-she thinks in the wrong. It keeps her busy. Up at 6 a.m.-long before her husband, who is a telephone company supervisor-Norma Wulff starts her day talking on her two private telephones. As she eats breakfast and washes the dishes, she has the receiver hooked to her shoulder, talking incessantly to teachers, newspapermen and P.T.A. women (she was president of the all-city P.T.A. before her election to the board...
...last time I had met that sort of block supervisor was in Soviet Russia. The time before that was in Nazi Germany...
...good to last. The New York World-Telegram printed embarrassing stories. Then New York's Republican state government, which contributes a lion's share of the relief funds dispensed by the city Democratic regime, began investigating. Last week, at a public hearing, State Department of Social Welfare Supervisor Bernard Shapiro lifted the racket...
Just before dawn one morning after that, Mrs. George Kronshein, night supervisor at Brooklyn's Harbor Hospital, telephoned the police. She said that a drunken copper had barged into the nurses' home, mauled her, and then staggered noisily into a women's ward. A patrol car arrived and took the cop away...