Word: rugg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee of eminent educators, headed by Columbia's Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, was formed by the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom to examine the text books attacked by Professor Robey. And in Philadelphia at a P. E. A. meeting over which Professor Miller presided, Professor Rugg and his critics unsheathed their swords. Cried Professor Rugg, glaring at the Economic Council's Merwin Hart: "These men are . . . enemies, enemies of our children. Mr. Hart speaks as a representative of business, I as a representative of the American people...
...unequal distribution of wealth and unequal opportunities in the U. S. Few years ago businessmen, alarmed at what sounded like undermining of the U. S. system of private enterprise, began to protest. They attacked particularly a series of 20 books written by mild-mannered, white-haired Professor Harold Ordway Rugg of Columbia University's Teachers College...
...last fall superpatriots, led by Merwin K. Hart, president of the New York State Economic Council, had ousted Dr. Rugg's books from a number of smalltown schools (TIME, Sept. 9), had got them banished entirely from the Georgia list. At a hearing before the Georgia Board of Education, a State police captain pointed a finger at Professor Rugg, cried: "There sits the ringmaster of the Fifth Columnists in America, financed by the Russian government...
...that the upper classes were cautious and slow to act. . . . The fathers of the Constitution feared "too much democracy." They were afraid of what the mass of people, who did not possess property, would do to the few who did.-America's March Toward Democracy, by Harold O. Rugg...
...Rochester, N. Y. last week, while city health officers struggled with a polluted water system, School Superintendent James M. Spinning announced an answer to the problem of polluted textbooks. Goaded by Rugg-beaters (critics of widely used texts by Columbia Professor Harold Rugg-TIME, Sept. 9), Superintendent Spinning had polled the city's 17,000 high-school students, found that 99.22% approved the U. S. form of government. Less than 1% had read any schoolbooks which, they thought, "break down the loyalty of pupils to the United States." Sixteen of them said Professor Rugg's did so. Others...