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...system." Dr. Robert E. Van Deusen of the National Lutheran Council told the House subcommittee that a religious group with its own high school system "should provide the necessary financial support, thus insuring its own continuing autonomy and freedom." The Association of Reform Rabbis of New York announced: "We uphold the President's definite stand against the extension of any portion of federal aid to parochial schools." "This Other Area." Clearly worried about the fate of the bill, the Kennedy forces tried cautiously to find some middle course. At the House hearing, New Jersey Democrat Frank Thompson, a Catholic...
...special Student Council committee charged last night that the Council does not adequately represent the student body or act as an effective pressure-group to uphold student rights...
...Protestant schoolteacher in suburban Detroit, I view with alarm the rapidity being used by the Roman Catholic hierarchy in their forthright demands for federal aid to parochial schools. John F. Kennedy has promised that he will uphold the separation of church and state. With such men as Francis Cardinal Spellman picking away at him after less than a week in office, what will happen in the next four years...
...bombastically bragging that their states' mandates in the matter of casting of electoral votes need not be obeyed. At this very moment one of the South's truly civilized and gracious cities, New Orleans, is torn by ugly racial strife openly encouraged by those sworn to uphold the laws. Should the Confederacy be established, such shenanigans would be of no more than parochial interest, to be regarded by the 37 United States in the same light as revolts in Iran . . . The Southerners could buy our automobiles and we would buy their textiles. Barley would go for bourbon...
TRADING-STAMP BAN won a state Supreme Court test in Wyoming, first state in 40 years to uphold a law outlawing stamps. Said the Wyoming court: "The lure of trading stamps is an evil" because it discriminates against small merchants...