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One sign of the increased militancy of teachers during the Depression was their willingness to attack the wealthy. The educational journal Social Frontier, for example, published the following list of annual incomes in 1934:
William Randolph Hearst, $500,000, Newspapers
Mae West, $339,166, Movies
B. D. Miller, $337,479, Dime stores
C.W. Guttzeit, $323,250, Electricity
Charles M. Schwab, $250,000, Steel
Bing Crosby, $192,948, Crooner
George Hill, $187,126, Tobacco
R. B. Bohn, $140,860, Aluminum
F. B. Davis, $125,219, Rubber
Arthur C. Dorrance, $112,500, Soups
At the time the average annual salary of an American teacher was slightly more than $1,200; a college instructor was paid slightly more than $1,500.
Source: William Edward Eaton, The American Federation of Teachers, 1916-1961: A History of the Movement (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1975)
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