Critique of American Schooling and Music Reform
An inquiry finds teachers strong in history but weak in economics political science sociology and geography. It laments limited geography knowledge despite travel and news. The piece calls for economists to study people over charts and favors Leopold Stokowski’s push for lower concert prices and larger halls to grow audiences. It also discusses public relief, urging return of the relief burden to states and localities, with the federal government as last resort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leopold Stokowski
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
Stokowski
White Sulphur Springs
Banx
Government advice on good bosses and the justices’ photo dispute
United Press reports on Civil Service Commission guidance for federal managers to avoid nagging and lecture in private. It also notes Associate Justices Brandeis and McReynolds opposing portrait photos, while Rep. Burdick reflects on Dakota winters and a cross country move to assume office, recalling his football days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
Civil Service Commission
Commission
Twenty Years Ago Journal Notes December 26 1914
Carl Landgren died from injuries after a fall at the Howard plant. City officials including Mayor Patterson and City Solicitor G T Kincaid travel to Harrisburg for a Third Class City League Law Committee meeting on December 30. Local merchants report weak retail conditions amid Christmas travel and family reunions across town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Landgren
Howard
Patterson
G. T. Kincaid
Harrisburg
Legislative Yes Men in 1934 Special Session Remarks
Humorous quip by Guy C. K. Allen of Louisiana at a 1934 Louisiana special legislative session. He notes lawmakers faced 35 bills and many law mart ers appeared ignorant of topics. The remark suggests they should vote for everything, and they did, though some lawmakers objected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy
C. K. Allen
Louisiania
Cesar Romero on dancing and film stardom
Hollywood gossip notes Cesar Romero, Paramount's new leading man, recalls quitting dance at its peak to pursue serious film work. He discusses dancing as training, its feminizing perceptions, and his rise opposite Margaret Sullavan in Strictly Dishonorable, plus a rumor about Latin dance duo Veloz and Yolanda and their Hotel Coconut Grove fame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Cesar Romero
Paramount
New York
Romero
Tullio Carminatti
Margaret Sullavan
Mariene Dietrich
Oth
Veloz
Yolanda
Ambassador Hotel
Coconut
Grove
Paris Spotlight on Patou’s Australian Belle
Paris Louis Patou showcases glamorous Sydney import Margaret Myner as a rising fashion icon. She poses in velvet chair images and wears a claret condor feather toque. Myner, daughter of Sir Robert Vyner, plans to travel to America while London considers movie offers. Patou also features an evening gown with blackberry lace and a raffia sash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Paton
Sidney
Australia
Margaret Myner
Patou
Miss Myner
London
Margaret
Robert
Vyner
United Press
America
Police seek would be killer in near-fatal cement block attack
Police search for a would-be killer after a 50-pound cement block was hurled from a second floor window at Dominick Padaveni Sr at 1618 Poylar Street around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. The block narrowly missed his head as he stooped to pick up a basket left on his steps, and crashed onto the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominick Padaveni Sr
Poylar St
Patavont
Youth Hero Dies Saving Companions at Dam
In Brownsville Pennsylvania Leroy Maple aged 17 sacrificed his life attempting to save two skating companions, James Beech 23 and Howard Swords 12, from thin ice at Elliot Dam. He helped them onto firmer ice but failed to reach safety himself dying on the sidewalk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy
Bit
Man Sustains Broken Back in Auto Accident
Ridgway December 26 Eugene Geeck of Marcus Street Sl. Marys sustained a fracture of the spinal column in an automobile accident on the Muenster Road near St. Marys early Monday morning. He was treated by a St. Marys physician, returned home, then moved to Elk County General Hospital for X ray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgway
Eugene Geeck
Marcus Street
SL. Marys
Muenster
St. Marys
Geeck
Elk County General Hospital
Youth saved from death near Niagara Falls during holiday incident
In Niagara Falls on Christmas Day a youth was swept toward the falls in an open car. Joseph A. Als ekavions, 14, was rescued by Frank Vanoni and Anthony Nickles after they chased the drifting boat less than a mile from the rink. He suffers a fractured back and partial paralysis. The Shey fold sedan carrying Geeck and John McCarren of Ponlter Avenue, Saint Marys, overturned, with the driver lightly cut and two passengers uninjured.
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Niagara
Niagara Falls
Joseph A. Alsekavions
Frank Vanoni
Anthony Nickles
Jim
Sures
Geeck
John McCarren
Ponlter Avenue
SL. Marys
Star Signals December 1935 Horoscope Summary
Star Signals notes a favorable Christmas party night with midnights likely enjoyable. It cautions an analytical mood in the evening and mentions a Sun ruler’s friendliness from March 13 to 31, 1935. It forecasts constructive advancement and benefits from a secret source, with danger and social favor periods in 1935.
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Arthur Wolegrove
National Advertising
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Milwaukee
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Chicago
Stormfeltz-Lovely
Detroit
Chamber of Cor
Pittsburgh
Louis Dembbitt Brandeis
Supreme Court
James Clark McReynolds
Thether
Brandeis
McReynolds
Asher L. Burdick
North Dakota
Dakota
Burdick
West Virginia
Um .Corry
John MacInnes
Youngsville
Mae Howard
Warren
Emmett Lacy
G. B. Heath
Union City
Charles Kinley
Alex Koestner
Erie
Messrs
Clifford Jourdet
Wiley ‘Crotis
New York City
West Point
East
F. M. Plate
Mill Village
United States
Senate
Hollywood Film Shop
Dominick Padaveni
Frank C. Chapin
Nellie Don
North Center Street
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