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Frankie Costello is an underworldling with a difference: he has more money than most bank presidents and he never seems to be around when any rough stuff is going on. This enables him to maintain a snug Manhattan apartment and a big house in the Long Island countryside, to contribute to worthy causes, and to control as many Tammany politicians as he finds convenient...
...compromise the states desire to maintain local control of education and the federal government's reluctance to hand out funds without some control over their use, Sargent suggests a federal board of education, named by laymen, to serve as an advisory group to state education administrations...
...There is no such thing as an inevitable war ... Is there not talk once again of a possible meeting between Truman and Stalin? ... If they could work together to conduct a war, it should be easier to work together to maintain peace . . . Allow me to ask my Christian colleagues if they do not agree that we are reaching a point of historical renewal comparable to the end of the pagan domination of the world . . . May this be the year of peace...
Private schools, of course, mean Catholic schools, for the most part. If a program of high-powered federal aid goes to public schools only, the parochial system could not maintain equal educational standards. Catholic organizations are, therefore, deeply concerned with getting a share of any federal funds. Under the Taft kind of compromise, parochial schools would get stronger in some states, and weaker in others, depending on the power of local Catholic pressure groups. Supporters of aid to private schools (not Catholic alone) say that the basis of federal grants should not be public control, but public service. They maintain...
Western genetics does not maintain that "backward" races are backward because of hereditary deficiencies. All humans, say the geneticists, have about the same genetic potentialities. Individual deficiencies come from defects of culture, early nutrition, etc. But such details of accepted science are not likely to be expounded by Soviet propagandists. Western genetics (primacy of heredity) can be made to sound like a "master race" doctrine, and Lysenkoism (primacy of environment) can be made to sound like light and hope-out of Soviet Russia...