Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arnulfo was dapper, yanqui-baiting ex-President Arnulfo Arias, an old enemy of Remón but a politico who has the support of the powerful Authentic Revolutionary Party and would have won the 1948 presidential elections if an electoral jury had not thrown out 2,714 of his ballots. When the Supreme Court declared ousted Daniel Chanis still the lawful President, Remón went straight to Arnulfo's Bella Vista home and invited the man he helped toss out in 1941 to take over at the palace...
...England and Wales, as in the U.S., the Roman Catholic Church has long maintained a school system of its own, to give children church doctrine along with their Three Rs. Last week, Catholic Parents' Associations in Britain were rallying support for a drastic change: they wanted to persuade the government to take over the Catholic schools. Nobody was happy about it. To the crisis-goaded government it would mean an added financial drain; to British Catholics it might be a dangerous surrender. But there seemed to be no other...
English Catholics had winced when the 1944 Education Act was passed. Under its provisions for new schools, better buildings and an extra year of compulsory education (to age 15), the total cost for Catholics was estimated at ?10 million-over & above the regular taxes paid to support government schools. Catholic bishops duly informed education officials that they could not pick up so big a burden. Since then, soaring building costs and various other factors have upped the original estimates to somewhere between ?50 and ?60 million...
...Strings. Last month, Britain's Catholic hierarchy came forward with its counterproposal. Under its provisions, all Catholic schools could be leased to the local education authority "at a rent which would allow for mortgage interest or redemption." The government would then support Catholic schools out of taxes, in return would have sole power to regulate school curricula and appoint teachers. Beyond the fact that the proposal would still leave the ownership of the schools in church hands, there was another big string tied to it: the teachers would be subject to Catholic approval "as regards religious belief, character...
Last week at its convention in Sacramento, the National Grange, second largest of the three main U.S. farm groups,*condemned the Brannan plan and went beyond; it also questioned many of the chief points in the whole support program. It called the Brannan program "an internal cancer that would ultimately destroy our free enterprise system...