Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday morning at 8 a.m., the Harvard Band will participate in the 21st Communion Breakfast of the Cambridge Police Department. The parada, featuring local dignitaries, will assemble at Porter Sq. and proceed to Rindge Ave. and Our Lady of Pity Church...
...country. Catholic grade and high schools have nearly quadrupled in 50 years to 4,700,100 students-one out of every eight U.S. school children. But parochial schools get no direct tax support: the First Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, forbids direct aid to church schools. Meanwhile. Catholic parents (as well as Protestant and Jewish parents who send their children to church schools) are taxed for public schools while their own growing schools need money. What should...
Open Mind. Much of the discussion concerned the basic question of what role religion should play in tax-supported schools. Nobody was entirely satisfied with religious "lessons" by secular teachers. Rabbi Gordis decried handing over the work of church and home to public schools, which might develop a "religion-by-rote." Agnostic Lekachman agreed: "I consider religion to be much too important in human history to see it reduced to a patriotic exercise in the classroom...
Then what of church schools that keep high academic standards and teach religion as well? Agnostic Lekachman warmly supported the right of churches to maintain them, and just as warmly opposed tax aid for them. The public school has "primacy" in a free society, he felt, because it is "an ally of social tolerance, class fluidity, and the open mind." It is the one agent that may postpone choices "until they can become the acts of adults rather than the reflexes of children . . . The public school is too valuable to encourage alternatives to it." With much of this Rabbi Gordis...
...food markups in the world. When Leclerc began offering 20% off on staple groceries, with up to 70% off on chocolates, razor blades and other specialties, his Landerneau competitors went to war to protect their entrenched position. They first spread false rumors that he was a tool of the church, French labor unions or the French employers' federation. As customers continued to crowd his store, increasing his sales from $26,000 to $700,000 a year, his competitors sent anonymous letters to authorities charging that he was cheating on taxes, underpaying his help. Revenue agents established that he owed...