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Especially after the 1932 revelations of financial fraud and misconduct on the part of electricity magnate Samuel Insull and other Chicago businessmen, teachers turned militant. Responding to the situation in April 1933, a Chicago high-school gym teacher, John M. Fewkes, led twenty thousand teachers, parents, and students on a march against city hall. When that demonstration accomplished nothing, Fewkes sent five thousand teachers into the banks that refused to honor teachers' scrip, where they splashed ink on the walls, jammed tellers' windows, and overturned desks. A follow-up demonstration resulted in pitched battles between male teachers and police. City National Bank chairman Charles C. Dawes, the recipient of a large federal loan, responded to these events by denouncing teachers. "To hell with troublemakers," he said, and the leading newspapers in the city, including the Chicago Tribune, agreed. The school board responded by voting on 12 July 1933 to fire fourteen...
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