If you squint really hard, you can see that the credit for this mess goes to the State Citizens Committee on Public Education.
March 27, 1955: Simple guide to school finances
It's no wonder that metro newspapers of the 1950s were extremely profitable: They had a virtual monopoly on classified ads, employed kids to deliver their product and had few if any skilled graphic artists on the payroll. Just try to make sense of this 1955 picture-graph from the Minneapolis Tribune. Appearing with a story headlined "Simple Guide to State School Finances," it's most likely a legislative handout hauled back to the newsroom by the beat writer and slapped directly into print.
May 22, 2017 at 12:40PM
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Ben Welter
The "winners" have all been Turkeys, no matter the honor's name.
