Chicago's blue-eyed, sallow Superintendent of Schools William Harding Johnson lives in the six-room lower half of a two-family house in the Rogers Park section of Chicago's North Side. Last week a dynamite bomb shattered his rear doorstep. It was, said the police bomb squad, "no amateur job."
Detonator. On Sept. 6 Superintendent Johnson had ordered children who were attending public schools outside their own districts to shift back at once. The decree, he explained, was intended to restore the city's numerically unbalanced classrooms to equilibrium. Parents retorted that to send their children to...
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