Word: townships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert E. Fitzner, of Evans Road, Flossmoor, Illinois, a graduate of Bloom Township High School, Chicago Heights, Edward Foote, of 601 Iowa Avenue, Aurora, Illinois, a graduate of West Aurora High School...
Back to Their Shack. But after a few months Gil and Maggie ran away from the farm and lit out for their shack on Half Moon. An alarm was sounded, but Abe Stern, police chief of Ramapo township, didn't do anything about it. "Gil and Maggie will make out all right," he said...
...Morality of Stomachs. In China's new Government Chen holds no job. He exerts his influence in other ways. From his post as Secretary-General of the Kuomintang's Central Political Council ("the politburo"), Chen runs the local party machinery through control of hsien-township-magistrates. Chen's magistrates collect the taxes, confiscate the grain for the armies, run' conscription...
...questioned by sincere individuals who would exaggerate free religious enterprise into a form of state-help for diverse religious activities. The latest of these experiments in extended state participation in the spiritual field, and by far the most painful to evaluate, reached its unsatisfactory climax in the Ewing Township Decision, rendered last week by the Supreme Court. Split into a five-and-four grouping, the Court nonetheless upheld a New Jersey law which grants tax rebates to families whose children must pay bus-fare in order to reach parochial schools. These tax rebates constitute repayment to families which cannot...
...often the value of parochial education has been injected into just this type of argument. There is no place in the case against the Ewing Township Decision for any conclusions about Church schooling. This form of education plays a vital role in society, but a role apart from the educational mechanism fashioned by the state for public use. Any mixing of the two structures, if only to prevent exclusion of any groups from the benefit of welfare legislation "because of their faith or lack of it," is mistaking state paternalism for true freedom. A state cannot be allowed to subsidize...