Word: schoolbooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flem David Sampson, Governor of Kentucky since Jan. 1, 1928 assumed among other duties that of seeing that Kentucky school children got new schoolbooks. He and the State textbook commission were soon flooded by 25 schoolbook publishers with sample copies. Partly because he is the only Republican high official in his administration, partly because his opponents were ignorant of publishing practice, Governor Sampson was indicted last month for receiving "gifts." Seven members of the textbook commission and all the sample-sending publishers were also indicted, it being known that the commissioners had sold the sample books they received for sums...
...would have been better if it had been, for Mr. Quick could have produced an exceedingly interesting volume by holding to the thread of history of contrast. It is a story of middle aged lion between a very young girls, who more firmly. As it is, by sugar coating schoolbook facts with the conventional love trash, he introduces an element which is both out of place and annoying. The heroine may be the cause of all the difficulty, for she is the worst-drawn character in the book; imported as she is from the stockroom of the modern author...