Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indiana textbook commissioner last week struck a blow for decency and free enterprise by demanding that children cease all reading of the Robin Hood legend in schools. It is high time someone exposed the story for what it really is: a cleverly-disguised piece of dialectic materialism written by a Red-tainted radical far ahead of his time...
...dodging the model planes which air-minded David, 5, sent zooming around the room; admiring the doodles which filled the drawing books of Barbara Anne, 4, and delighting in the baby tricks of Susan, 21 months. Last week the President also: ¶ Named Bryce Harlow, 37, former Oklahoma City textbook publisher, as chief presidential speechwriter in place of Emmet J. Hughes, who resigned to return to the editorial staff of LIFE. ¶ Revived the Point Four Program's policy steering committee, inactive since last November, by appointing seven new members and continuing the tenure of five others...
...Textbook Bannings...
...Legion did not limit its actions to the lecture halls. In February, the Phoenix chapter tangled with a textbook named "Basic Economics," written by four Rutgers professors. Earlier in the year, the Phoenix Board of Education and the President of Phoenix College read the book and adopted it as standard course material. All went smoothly until the Phoenix Gazette printed an anonymous letter from an ex-army officer calling the book subversive and urging the College to drop...
...Legion tried to suppress another textbook in Nebraska, but with much less success. Joseph Vurardi, chairman of the Legion's Nebraska Un-American Activities Committee, accused "a certain professor" at the University of Nebraska of using "a certain book" in his class. "Students can't swallow that staff," Vurardi said. The book turned out to be "The State of Asia," a publication of the Institute of Pacific Relations. One of its articles was written by Owen Lattimore. The "indoctrinator" was Dr. E. N. Anderson, professor of history...