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...sects. They clatter about the country in jalopies, often a couple to a car, the man in overalls, the woman in calico. They ring doorbells, ask whoever answers to listen to their phonograph records attacking all "organized religion" (the Roman Catholic church in particular) as a racket. They disregard the law because they owe allegiance to "none but God." In school their children refuse to salute the flag, believing that it is a graven image. Last week into clink from Maine to Texas as alleged spies, radicals, fifth columnists and non-patriots bounced Bible-dizzy but patently sincere Jehovah...
...faces a Federal charge of income-tax evasion when he gets out. Fumed Pegler, the whole union is "A vicious racket preying on the rank and file of American worked...
When the University prohibited students, under penalty of "disciplinary action," from attending any of the Square cram schools it insured the ultimate demise of a racket which in the past ten years has materially lowered the prestige of a Harvard degree. It also recreated a problem which must not be overlooked. For partly behind the growth of the outlawed tutoring schools was a legitimate educational need--that of organized pre-final reviews. Not all the students who in the past attended commercial reviews did so in order to get crammed with facts they were too lazy to learn for themselves...
...newspapers, the county seat and an unconscionable amount of static. Last summer so many irate listeners complained to the city fathers of vacuum cleaner, heating pad and electric razor interference in their radios that the august body had a survey made. Offenders were asked to install condensers and other racket-eliminating gadgets. Few did. So last week the municipally-owned electric company sent electricians from door to door. Methodically they began installing condensers where necessary, charging them to the householder's monthly bill. Penalty for refusing to permit installation or to pay the bill was drastic: no electric power...
...raided its "classroom" and carried away two taxi-loads of notes to be burned at the Federal Building. In fact this week has seen a widening as well as a strengthening of the anti-cram-school front, for Princeton has just inaugurated a vigorous campaign to wipe out the racket...