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Those who believe that the movement inflames nativist resentments got some ammunition this fall. The ethnocentric views of U.S. English's co-founder and former chairman John Tanton came to light when initiative opponents uncovered a 1986 memo in which he expressed worry that low white birthrates and high Hispanic birthrates would endanger American society. Wrote Tanton: "Perhaps this is the first instance in which those with their pants up are going to get caught by those with their pants down." Board member Linda Chavez, former staff director of the Civil Rights Commission and later candidate for the U.S. Senate...
...Tanton aside, the English-language movement is something of a political hybrid, resisting categorization. Former and current members of the board of directors of U.S. English like Chavez and Cronkite, Bruno Bettelheim, Saul Bellow and Alistair Cooke are hardly xenophobes. They believe that, in a land that was founded by immigrants, English is the essential unifying force. The propositions they support may be little more than useless clutter, a reassurance that the U.S. is not vulnerable to a Quebec-style bilingualism with all its attendant bitterness. Ironically, it is the debate over the ballot initiatives themselves that has created...
HARVARD 1926 DEAN McGlone, s.s. 3b., Hannford Knowlton, 2b. c.f., Toulouse Slayton, 3b. c., Doherty Todd, c.f. 1b., Tanton Field, 1b. l.f., Trudau Burton, l.f. r.f., O'Brien Allen, r.f. 2b., Donovan Baldwin, c. s.s., Hanson Casto, p. p., Ford, Goddard...
Dean Academy.--Hannford 3b., Toulouse, Londener c.f., Doherty c., Tanton 1b., Trudau l.f., O'Brien r.f., Donovan 2b., Hanson s.s., Ford, Goddard...