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Meanwhile, a member of the President's Committee, dark, bushy-browed Rev. George Johnson, of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, snorted that Dr. Strayer's charges were "utter nonsense." Catholic children, said he, "should not be deprived of their rights as Americans because they do not happen to...
Two 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...
But in Washington a committee of the National Education Association, after seeing President Roosevelt, indicated that the President would support his Committee's recommendations. And in Congress, Senator Harrison prepared to amend his Federal aid bill to conform to the Reeves proposals.
As legendary as his dress and habits is Bill McGovern's learning. He wrote a book on Japanese grammar, speaks twelve languages, is said to know more about John Galsworthy than the university's English department. Once University of Michigan's famed Pundit Jesse Siddall Reeves, fresh...
The intervening 726 pages are only indirectly Reeves's story. In that instant there leaps into his mind the tormented figure of Jeremiah, the prophet of doom, who in the reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on...