Word: maughmer
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Whirlpool. The spark behind the latest bannings was newly elected Mrs. Earl Maughmer Jr., wife of a police sergeant. She objected to a widely used text called Geography of the World for High Schools because it praised the U.N. in the foreword, also condemned a book which Yale Geographer Stephen B. Jones helped write because one of its chapters bore the title: "It's All One World." Then she went after a twelfth-grade text called Applied Economics because it said that the Government had certain obligations "to promote the welfare of all the people." Said one board member...