Supreme Court Faces School Prayer Controversy Again
The article examines renewed debates over school prayers and Bible reading, predicting a likely ruling against classroom religious activities. It discusses positions of school boards, critics, and the balance between individual conscience and civil authority amid changing American attitudes toward religion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
New York
Francis B. Burch
Baltimore School Board
United States
Domestic Peace Corps Exists Only In Namesake Rumor
A Washington showpiece, the so called Domestic Peace Corps, appears staffed with 25 people and funded payrolls yet lacks any enabling legislation. It operates from 736 Jackson Place with offices and a public relations program, awaiting legal birth as Congress debates New Frontier policy.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Washington
Dunkirk
Illinois Bell Telephone
Peace Corps
Robert F. Kennedy
Congress
Jackson Place
Washington, D. C
New Frontier
Four day week bill could push legislators to three days
If the four day week legislation reaches the General Assembly, lawmakers may be inclined to adopt a three day work week.
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General Assembly
Laziness Aids The Censor in Moral Scandal Debate
The essay attacks censors as petty dictators who label works and people as socialist subversives. It argues specialists may be biased, warns against silencing ideas, and challenges the comfort of calling non controversial books safe. It questions what true safety means.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bre’r Rabbit
Robin Hood
Sen
Robert Taft
Supreme Court
When Court Was Supreme and Broadway Scorn
Dave Felts reviews shifting respect for the U S Supreme Court in the South and Texas, notes Ellen Maury Slayden’s Washington Wife journals on early 1900s social protocol, and critiques Broadway’s Mr President. He cites John Simon on Berlin and discusses liquor tax politics as Illinois weighs higher levies on liquor tobacco and horse betting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Supreme Court
South
Texas
Washington
Ellen Maury Slayden
San Antonio
National
Supreme Court
Uncle Sam
Illinois General Assembly
Paradox For 30 Years Government Subsidy Is Fact Of Life
The piece argues subsidies have become a farmer’s fact of life for 30 years. It warns that eliminating subsidies could ruin small farms, displace two million workers, and damage the rural economy while urging farm groups to unite to defend individual initiative and avoid tyranny or socialism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee For Economic Development
CED
Orville L. Freeman
Herschel D. Newsom
National Grange
Farm Bureau
Charles B. Shuman
Farmers Union
James G. Patton
National Farmers Organization
Kennedy
Congress
National Academy of Foreign Affairs
BBC Records Archive reveals Lenin tenor and Valentino miscast
The BBC library showcases Lenin as a high tenor rather than a bass or baritone and Valentino singing English with Italian accent. Browning fluffed lines during poetry recording. The collection lists 315 Blue Danube versions, 200Tiger Rag pressings, 66 Schubert Unfinished, and 73 Beethoven Fifth recordings stored in London.
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Nicolai Lenin
Rudolph Valentino
Robert Browning
Lenin
Valentino
BBC
Browning
Spike Jones
Schubert
Beethoven
London
Ambassadors More Fluent In Languages
The United States reports progress in diplomats speaking host languages rather than only English. Seventy percent of envoys now understand the local tongue or the country’s diplomatic language, up from 45 percent five years ago, with notable gains in Latin America and the Middle East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
State Department
Kennedy
Latin America
Middle East
John B. Martin
Dominican Republic
John O. Bell
Guatemala
Joseph S. Farland
Panama
U.S
United Arab Republic
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Lebanon
Greece
Iran
Israel
Jordan
Syria
John K. Galbraith
India
Ceylon
Pakistan
Foy D. Kohler
Moscow
Romania
William A. Crawford
Yugoslavia
George F. Kennan
Czechoslovakia
Outerbridge Horsey
Poland
John M. Cabot
Eugenie Anderson
Bulgaria
Hungary
Africa
Somali
Algeria
William J. Porter
Far East
Edwin 0. Reischauer
Japan
Europe
Paris
Rome
Madrid
Bonn
Great Britain
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Dave Felts
The
Times
Lindsay & Crouse
Irving Berlin
Lindsay, Crouse
John Simon
Harper’s
Simon
Vienna
South Seas
Wild West
Russia
Business Week
Country Beautiful Magazine
America
P.S
Tom A. Cullen
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
British Broadcasting Company
Andrew Tully McClure
Newspaper Syndicate
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