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...mostly from the South. The southern states operate a wasteful segregation system--one set of schools for whites, one for Negroes--which helps to make southern education the worst in the country. Assuming that federal aid will go where it is most needed, the South stands to receive the biggest share, and citizens in the north ask why they should pay taxes to support a wasteful and repugnant system of "dual education...
...midmorning, despite a drizzling rain, one of the biggest crowds in Tallahassee's history was standing in front of Florida's steepled old state capitol. Democrat Fuller Warren, onetime farm boy from Calhoun County's peanut and sweet-potato country, was about to be inaugurated governor-belly laugh, handshake, campaign promises and all. The folks expected a good show. They...
Though the company went on to become one of the biggest watchmakers...
Perhaps the biggest stumbling-block for federal aid is the fear--honest or not--of federal control. Everybody wants to get a slice of the federal pie; few prospective beneficiaries want the government to set up uncomfortable standards and stringent conditions. That accounts for a good deal of the hot air about, "federal dictation." The more imaginative opponents (not of aid, necessarily, but of controls) picture a gigantic Washington bureau sending out hatchet-men by the score to bulldoze teachers into pumping unconstitutional propaganda down the maw of American Youth...
...million dollars to the states for elementary and secondary schools. Each state was to get a minimum of five dollars for each child; and the poorer states were scheduled to get more--up to nearly 30 dollars per head in Mississippi. Taft figured that he had the biggest bugaboo whipped--federal "dictatorship" in the little red schoolhouse. He said, in debate: "The only function of the federal government would be that of an auditor.... It will have no more to say about the exact method by which education shall be administered...