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...last term's end, the Rugg books had been banned from some half-dozen school systems...
Five years ago a patriot in Washington, D. C. denounced two Rugg books as "communistic," but the District of Columbia Board of Education gave them a clean bill of health. No Communist, Dr. Rugg has espoused some radical ideas, was an ardent believer in Technocracy...
Once sympathetic with the Soviet Union, Dr. Rugg in recent years has rewritten his chapters on Joe Stalin, made them more biting...
Nonetheless, his critics object to the Rugg texts for picturing the U. S. as a land of unequal opportunity, and giving a class-conscious account of the framing of the U. S. Constitution. They like to point out that he wrote of the Constitution: "The merchants, landov/ners, manufacturers, they shippers wanted. and ..." Some bankers of were the given critics fail what to quote the rest of the sentence, which modifies the beginning: "... namely, a government which would stabilize the money and trade, keep order within the country and defend the nation against foreign enemies...
...years ago Garden City, L. I. banned Rugg's books from its public schools. Soon reports of Rugg-beating emanated from many another town. Biggest row was in Englewood, N. J., home town of Hearst Columnist B. C. Forbes. Mr Forbes, a member of the Englewood Boarc of Education, charged that the Rugg books were "subversive," for a year agitated unsuccessfully to have them thrown...