Word: system
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England and Wales, as in the U.S., the Roman Catholic Church has long maintained a school system of its own, to give children church doctrine along with their Three Rs. Last week, Catholic Parents' Associations in Britain were rallying support for a drastic change: they wanted to persuade the government to take over the Catholic schools. Nobody was happy about it. To the crisis-goaded government it would mean an added financial drain; to British Catholics it might be a dangerous surrender. But there seemed to be no other...
...Sacramento, the National Grange, second largest of the three main U.S. farm groups,*condemned the Brannan plan and went beyond; it also questioned many of the chief points in the whole support program. It called the Brannan program "an internal cancer that would ultimately destroy our free enterprise system...
...order last week to stop the practices was "entirely academic," since the licensing agreements and the patents had expired last March. FTC, aware of the lapse in patents, said that it had issued its order anyway just to be sure that Taylor would not start up his system again...
...Luce stated at the outset that the American capitalistic economy, with all its defects, is closer to the spirit of Christianity than either socialism or communism. The Rev. Dr. Niebuhr replied that a proper application of the "Love thy neighbor" ideal was the decisive element in making any governmental system truly Christian in spirit...
...Every system must take self-love into account," the clergyman commented. "But in a technical society," he said, "each man seeking his own good will not produce the common welfare...