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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would provide $5 for each school-age child (5 to 17) in every state, plus additional funds on a sliding scale for the poorer states, e.g., Mississippi would get the highest allotment, $29.18 for each child. The states could use the funds for any grade-or high-school purpose, including building improvements or teachers' salaries. Last year Republican leadership in the House killed a similar Senate bill. But if the House Republicans were listening to Taft, the measure would have a lot less trouble this time...
...Compass will start out on a modest 24-page scale, pointing its needle to what Thackrey calls "the non-Communist left." Working as publisher, editor and managing editor, Wallaceite Thackrey thinks he can make money on 65,000 circulation and whatever advertising he can get. His editorial staff of 25 will include Medical Writer Albert Deutsch and Washington Correspondent I. F. ("Izzy") Stone, both survivors of PM and the Star, whom Thackrey harbored at the Post. The Compass' sport editor will be Stanley Woodward, onetime head of the New York Herald Tribune sport staff, lately editor of the short...
...large scale land reform will be carried on by confiscating land belonging to "feudal landlords" and organizing agricultural cooperatives...
...project will be built up from Yale's human relations files, started in 1937 as a small-scale answer to the problem of collecting data in the social sciences...
...Japanese find U.S. democracy attractive but elusive. It is strange and foreign to the touch. Schoolboys argue whether Minshushugi means Marx, Lincoln or Adam Smith. Harried housewives wonder how long it will be before belief in true democracy can scale down the price of black-market soap. Said a greying Osaka politician: "We can explain the theory of democracy and even make laws about it. But to feel it, that is the big jump. Let's face it-Japan is being baptized at a very...