Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 stuff," 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...
Born in a dugout home on a Texas tenant farm, Robert Lee (Bob) Thornton chopped brush, plowed with mules, slept in piles of cotton hulls, saved his money, went to Dallas, got a job as a bookkeeper with a firm that folded, got into the textbook business and went broke, started a "jitney loan" business which grew into the Mercantile National Bank. He grew rich and he grew old, but he refused to relax. ("You can't do a damned thing in a rocking chair-lots of action but no progress!") He lived...
...psychoanalysis, and the experts again lost interest in hypnosis. Now, the third time around, it is once more winning the support of reputable men in both the physical and psychic areas of medicine. To help put hypnosis over the top for good, eleven doctors have assembled the first comprehensive textbook in the field, Hypnosis in Modern Medicine (Thomas; $7.50), with Psychiatrist Jerome M! Schneck as editor...