Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schools supported by public taxes, she wrote, should be completely free of any private or religious control. She did not deny the contributions that "Catholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist or whatever" schools might make to the community. But if a U.S. citizen wanted his children to have special denominational training, then he should pay for it and not expect the Government to. "The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us," she concluded...
...stood with Mrs. Roosevelt against "religious control of schools which are paid for by the taxpayers' money." But he was also certainly against parochial school children being excluded from milk rations, bus transportation, immunization programs, and the use of non-religious textbooks provided by federal funds...
...both questions and incorporated the program in his Fair Deal. The U.S. Senate agreed when it passed its aid-to-education bill. But if such aid became a permanent policy of Government, would the nation's schools ultimately and inevitably fall into the hands of federal control? Should parochial and private schools which teach Christianity be excluded from federal aid and left to get along as best they could...
Cousin Cissy's estate included not only the Times-Herald but also about a one-eighth interest in the Patterson-McCor-mick family trust, whose 2,000 shares control both the Chicago Tribune and the New York Dotty News. Under Cissy's will, the stock was part of her residual estate, earmarked for such charities as Chicago's Children's Home and Aid Society and the Cradle Society. But it looked as if the stock might have to be sold to help pay inheritance and estate taxes. That posed for Colonel McCormick the horrible prospect...
Webster, a shrewd infighter, began bucking Straus's every move. He accused him of spending Eversharp's money extravagantly, lined up other directors against him. At Webster's urging, Straus was stripped of all Eversharp control save advertising. Three months ago the directors kicked Straus out of the chairmanship by abolishing...