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- proper noun A patronymic
surname .
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Eric Kayne for The Wall Street Journal Store empoyee Corey Jeanes labels pallets in the warehouse section of the store.
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Louisiana, and, at present, Director of the Jeanes and Slater Funds for Negro education in the South.
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Jeanes and Slater Funds, a Virginian, and an LL.D. of three Southern universities, including his alma mater, Washington and Lee.
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The summer schools of the state as well as one of the large summer schools outside the state, where large numbers of North Carolina teachers and Jeanes teachers study each summer have been visited during the past biennium.
Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, July 1, 1938 to June 30, 1940 North Carolina State Board of Charities 1938
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In pre-depression years the state through its State Equalization Board allotted to the counties about one-half the salary and a sum for travel over the county for each of the Jeanes teachers employed then.
Report and Recommendations of the Commission to Study Public Schools and Colleges for Colored People in North Carolina: Authorized by the General Assembly in Resolution no. 28, March 10, 1937, and Appointed by Governor Clyde R. Hoey Commission to Study Public Schools 1938
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Jeanes teachers were able to raise in their several counties in 1937-1938 $59,493.78, all of which was used under the direction of superintendents for school improvements.
Report and Recommendations of the Commission to Study Public Schools and Colleges for Colored People in North Carolina: Authorized by the General Assembly in Resolution no. 28, March 10, 1937, and Appointed by Governor Clyde R. Hoey Commission to Study Public Schools 1938
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Jeanes teachers were employed in 59 counties in North Carolina in 1937-1938.
Report and Recommendations of the Commission to Study Public Schools and Colleges for Colored People in North Carolina: Authorized by the General Assembly in Resolution no. 28, March 10, 1937, and Appointed by Governor Clyde R. Hoey Commission to Study Public Schools 1938
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Only a few counties (10 in 1937-1938) since the depression, year of 1933, have found it possible to provide money which with the aid of the Jeanes Fund, was sufficient to employ a full-time Jeanes teacher who gave all her time, under the county superintendents 'direction, to visiting and aiding all the elementary colored schools in the county.
Report and Recommendations of the Commission to Study Public Schools and Colleges for Colored People in North Carolina: Authorized by the General Assembly in Resolution no. 28, March 10, 1937, and Appointed by Governor Clyde R. Hoey Commission to Study Public Schools 1938
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The Jeanes Fund appropriated $11,833.78 for this program in 1937-1938.
Report and Recommendations of the Commission to Study Public Schools and Colleges for Colored People in North Carolina: Authorized by the General Assembly in Resolution no. 28, March 10, 1937, and Appointed by Governor Clyde R. Hoey Commission to Study Public Schools 1938
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Growing out of his activities with the Jeanes Fund, he was later asked to administer the John F. Slater Fund, a similar foundation established earlier for the promotion of education among Negroes.
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