Week

By proclamation of the President. Nov. 17 and the six days immediately thereafter were observed as American Education Week. U. S. citizens throughout the land, especially parents and schoolteachers, bore in mind an official program arranged for them by the Bureau of Education (adjunct of the U. S. Department of the Interior) associated with the American Legion and the National Education Association.

The Bureau's brochure recommended that the seven days be called:

1) Constitution Day—"Bulwark of Democracy and Happiness." On this day it was recommended that the...

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