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...over the U.S., the Catholic and non-Catholic concepts of this doctrine have clashed repeatedly over such issues as the transportation of parochial pupils in public-school buses, and Government aid to parochial schools. The 5-to-4 Supreme Court decision of 1947 on the Ewing...
...Catholics argue that: 1) they are taxed to support public education; 2) they also support their own schools; 3) these schools save other U.S. taxpayers some $400,000,000 a year in additional taxes. (Catholic schools save the taxpayers much more than their actual $182,250,000 cost per year, because their operating expenses are less than half the public-school average...
North Dakota's Protestants, who wanted to oust 75 Roman Catholic nuns teaching in the state's public schools, thought they had won the battle. They got a law passed forbidding public-school teachers to wear religious garb (TIME, July 12). They hoped that this would be enough...
...York City's Board of (school) Superintendents banned the leftist Nation from public-school libraries, on the grounds that a series of articles by Paul Blanshard had been "definitely anti-Catholic." The American Civil Liberties Union called the board's action "a shocking and arbitrary exhibition of censorship...
...Rugby has shattered another tradition, and last week many an old public-school man wondered whether it was one too many. As its new head master, it had picked a man who had never taught a class or preached a sermon. The new head: London Lawyer Sir Arthur Brownlow fforde, 47, wartime under secretary in two British ministries (Supply, Treasury). Hard-pressed Rugby had frankly picked him because it needed someone who knew how to handle money. All week the London Times's letter columns bristled and huffed. Canon Harry Kenneth Luce, head master of Durham School, posed...