Word: schoolbook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paid too much attention then when state legislator James B. Morgan of Birmingham presented a bill which he had written. It was called Act 888, the Schoolbook Labelling Law. The law was simple enough; it provided that authors and men mentioned in public schoolbooks who were members of communist or communist front groups should be identified and catalogued in the front of each book. Thus no child would be deceived as to the affiliations of the person mentioned in the school books...
...bill, passed as it was amidst much other legislation, lay unnoticed until last March when a schoolbook publishing house representative went into speak to the editor of the Montgomery Daily. Advertiser. The Advertiser shortly afterward published an editorial pointing to the restrictions and the basic absurdity of the new Act. The editorial labelled the law not a book burning act but a 'book toasting...
...paid too much attention then when state legislator James B. Morgan of Birmlugham presented a bill which he had written. It was called Act 888, the Schoolbook Labelling Law. The law was simple enough: It provided that southers and men mentioned in public schoolbooks who were members of communist or communist from groups should be identified and catalogued in the front of each book. Thus no child would be deceived as to the affixations of the person mentioned in the school books...
...bill, passed as it was amidst much other legislation, lay unnoticed until last March when a schoolbook publishing house representative went into speak to the editor of the Montgomery Dally Advertiser. The Advertiser shortly afterward published an editorial pointing to the restrictions and the basic absurdity of the new Act. The editorial labelled the law not a book burning act but a "book toasting...
...weapons that France and Germany have used against each other, none has been quite so insidious as the history textbook. Last week the daily Stuttgarter Nachrichten reported that the weapon is at last losing some of its power. Partly because of the work of Brunswick's International Schoolbook Institute, French and German historians have begun to correlate their tunes. One case in point: Alsace-Lorraine, taken from France by Bismarck in 1871 and returned after the victories of Marshal Foch...