Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst examples of anti-Catholic bias in the press during March. Father Toomey's observations on the scope of the contest: "Something may not seem to be anti-Catholic at all until one bestows thought upon it. For example, consider the Ladies' Home Joitrnal's birth control propaganda. . . . The bias may be achieved by playing up the anti-Catholic side, playing down the Catholic side ... or by means of half truths, interpretations, implications and other tricks of the propagandists. It is anti-Catholic bias if it misleads readers on any Catholic question...
...Hoover Commission, leery of Federal control of the schools, vetoed Federal aid, even though it found some sections of the country too poor to afford a decent minimum of schooling. But Depression dramatized the "glaring inequalities" in U. S. educational opportunities. Hundreds of schools closed, thousands of rural children were entirely without schooling. The U. S. Government was forced to use emergency relief funds to relieve the emergency in education. By this year it had spent $2,426,124,204 to keep schools open, build school buildings, teach adults, help youth in the National Youth Administration and CCC. Meanwhile...
...things blocked this bill. One was the size of the appropriation. The other was the opposition of the Catholic Church, which has been most vociferous in denouncing Federal control of education. But the pressure for Federal aid had become so great that a year ago President Roosevelt appointed an Advisory Committee on Education to study the matter. As its chairman he chose University of Chicago's hard-working Floyd Wesley Reeves, now on leave from the University as personnel consultant to TVA. Last week the Committee made its report, removed 'the two stumbling blocks...
...money ($40,000,000 the first year, $140,000,000 the last) would go for elementary and secondary education, the rest for school building, training of teachers, adult education, State educational administration, rural libraries, educational research. The money would be distributed among the States according to their needs. Federal control of what the schools teach would be barred...
...real difference between the business man preoccupied with his own affairs and the Government official who feels the winds blowing from every quarter is a difference in the sense of timing. Shall we move while we can still control our direction, or shall we wait, as some European countries have waited, for events to push us around...