Word: thurstone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rumors & Results. Then, last month, the town began to hear some strange rumors about its schools. For some reason that no one in Sandusky quite understood, State Superintendent Lee M. Thurston began an investigation of Smith's enrollment records. Last week Thurston announced the results. He had just uncovered, said he, "the most serious school scandal ever to confront...
According to Thurston's investigators, the scandal had really begun back in 1945. In that year Smith's enrollment figures suddenly began to soar, entitling Sandusky to thousands of extra dollars in state aid. Though no one suspected it at the time, Sandusky's school lists were just about as phony as Chichikov's serfs in Dead Souls. By 1950, said the investigators, Superintendent Smith was claiming state aid for 1,243 pupils, when his actual total enrollment was only 797. Last year he claimed 1,253 pupils, actually had only 785. Some of the names...
...authors of Satan see no reason to doubt the historical evidences of the Devil's existence-from witchcraft to the temptations of the saints. Writes the late Father Herbert Thurston, S.J., in his essay: "That such a thing as witchcraft exists or has existed in the world no Christian can deny who believes his Bible to be the inspired Word of God. It is impossible to suppose that the story of the witch of Endor [7 Kings 28: 7-25], of Simon Magus* [Acts 8: 9-24] ... are to be understood merely as allegories...
...Devil disappeared? Answers Father Thurston: "His tactics must be expected to change as the tone of men's minds changes . . . When the belief in God was too firmly rooted to be assailed with any hope of success, it may have suited the, Devil's purpose best to inflame the passions ... by the arts and illusions of witchcraft. In our own day, when faith is fast decaying and the greed of knowledge is keen, it may pay him better to foster such vague cults as Theosophy and Spiritualism...
...THURSTON...