Word: textbooks
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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...
...State's attorney appealed the case, to learn what he should do about the suits against the textbook commissioners and the 25 publishers. Meanwhile Mr. Sampson's prosecutors and the publishers reflected on the commercial aspects of the spread of culture...
...Each topic is very easy at the beginning and very hard at the end of its being taken up. But the topics are interesting though the course as a whole is not easy and its purpose prevents it from being unified. The lectures are interesting and clear; the textbook is patronising...
Than President Coolidge the U. S. people have seldom had a better tutor in U. S. geography. His person is the pointer, public prints are the textbook. Last week the President announced that he would spend his holidays on Sapeloe Island, off the coast of Georgia. Researches forthwith exhumed a history stretching continuously from the Mayan age to the U. S. tycoon age of today...
...private owners of some public utility, the suppliers of gas, bringers of electric light, should want their ownership to continue, might they not teach school children that such ownership was beneficent? Here and there they might juggle a paragraph in a textbook adopted throughout the land. They might now and again send inconspicuous checks to school teachers who preached that private ownership was public weal, State ownership "Bolshevism." When the school children reached maturity and taxpaying, they would accept private ownership of public utilities as matter of course...