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...people's darling. He was going to make the rich share their wealth with the poor, and make every man a king. His name was Huey Pierce Long and the people adored and elected him. He built $200 million worth of highways, provided free textbooks for schoolchildren, lavished funds on Louisiana State University, went on to the U.S. Senate. He did the people some good but a lot more evil. He seized the state and throttled civil liberties. He said: "I am the Constitution around here." He said he carried four guns because "you can't tell when...
...Vishinsky speech, I Want to Be Like Stalin attempts to build one myth about Russia and another about the world outside. To accomplish this, history is arbitrarily distorted (in 1934, a three-man committee of Stalin, Kirov, and Zhdanov saw to the revision of all history textbooks). Thus, Soviet schoolchildren are taught: during "the Great Patriotic War [World War II] . . . we proved to be the only power capable, not only of halting the dark surge of fascism, but also of inflicting on it a decisive and fatal defeat...
Catholic priests and nuns have been teaching in New Mexico ever since the 19th Century days of jolly Father Martinez,† who taught reading, writing and the catechism to New Mexican schoolchildren, until he was excommunicated for having too many children of his own. State law prohibits religious instruction in public schools, but the law has long been winked at. Last week, in the remote town of Dixon, N. Mex., the winking stopped...
...throw from here, if you have a strong throwing arm." He remembered that his second home was on Margaret Street. Said Mr. King: "I understand there is some kind of holy tabernacle there now-that may have been the influence of my early days." To some of the schoolchildren of Kitchener and neighboring Waterloo, he presented citizenship certificates. When eleven-year-old Marie Good came forward in a plaid skirt and jacket, the Prime Minister asked: "How about a kiss...
...showed him some contaminated water under a microscope: "See those bugs? They'll kill all of you if you don't let me help." The medicine man was impressed. Fascinated by X rays, the Indians began to troop to the hospital to have their pictures taken. Mission schoolchildren, envious of the attention paid to any classmate who had his appendix out, demanded to be operated...