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"Principal Denies Weekly Is 'Red'"

Newspaper clipping from the Hattiesburg American dated December 11, 1945.<br />
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Principal denies weekly is red<br />
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I Hattiesburg Parents complaint that his daughter and other Hattiesburg high school students were being exposed to communistic and socialistic propaganda through the medium of the weekly news review was quietly denied today by J. T. Wallace, principal of the senior high school.<br />
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The weekly news review is subscribe to my students of the 10th grade history class as a supplement to the study of current history.<br />
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I Hattiesburg father who made the complaint and further stated that he for bid his daughter to read the publication regardless of what instructions she received from her teacher, was not identified.<br />
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He based his complaint, he said on such articles in the review as to biographical sketch is which dealt with Harold Lasky, executive secretary of the British labor party and advocate of gradual so socialism and Senator Robert F Wagner Democrat of New York, veteran champion of the underdog and quarterback for many important pieces of new deal social legislation.<br />
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No objection<br />
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I have seen and read issues of the weekly news review and I have seen nothing in them to object to, Mr. Wallace it.<br />
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Miss Margaret L TrayWick, 10th grade history instructor, in his class the publication issues, was not available for comments she is absent on sick leave.<br />
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John a Beeson, principal of Hattiesburg junior high school, scanned the December 3 issue, in which the articles on Senator Wagner and Mr. Lasky appeared, and said he failed to read into them any attempt to feed school children with communistic or socialistic propaganda.<br />
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“They are brief biographical sketches. The publication itself advocates nothing,“ Mr. Beeson remarked.<br />
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Mr. beast an added that junior high had use the same publication up to 1943 but the junior review is now being used in the junior high school history course. Both publications are edited by the civic education service, 1733 K St., Northwest, Washington DC and J. Hubert Anderson is senior editor of both reviews.<br />
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Junior review<br />
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He added that the weekly news review was dropped in junior high school not because anything was found to be wrong with it, because the history instructor found that Junior review more suitable to class needs.<br />
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Miss Stella Myrick, junior high school social science teacher, who teaches history and civic classes lot of the junior of you as an excellent supplement to the study of current history, so no communistic north socialistic propaganda locate and its columns.<br />
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Bohleen our excerpts from the weekly news review which aroused the Hattiesburg Parents Eire:<br />
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Under a heading socialism in Europe games, the review reported: “the majority of people in nearly all these countries in Europe are agreed on one point – namely they don’t want to go back to conditions as they existed before the war. They favor radical changes in their social and industrial systems.“<br />
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“US basis serious housing crisis quote was the main article on page 1 of the publication. Other items dealt with “Pearl Harbor,“ “Trumans health plan,“ “trouble in Iran,“ “US housing agencies.“<br />
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Included an eight page review were pictures of Senator Wagner, Mr. Thorez,leader a fridge communist party, and a pen and ink sketch of Mr. Lasky.<br />
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Back page of the publication was devoted to a “form in “on “the way to effective citizenship“ consisting of questions to test how much the student had absorbed from reading the review, suggestions for classroom project in which students would make a quote rather thorough investigation of housing conditions in their own town,“ and suggested pamphlets for reading in connections with the housing problem.

Newspaper clipping from the Hattiesburg American about a parent complaining that the Hattiesburg High school was exposing his child to "communistic and socialistic propaganda through the medium of the 'Weekly News Review.'"

Tags: communism, education, Hattiesburg, high school, propaganda, Socialism

The Fifth Column Conspiracy in America authentic map and directory

Cover of a folded map with white and black lettering on a red background. Symbols for Nazism, Fascism, and Communism are found in addition to the following text. <br />
The Fifth<br />
Column<br />
Conspiracy<br />
in<br />
America<br />
Authentic<br />
Map and <br />
Directory<br />
Price twenty-five cents

The fifth column conspiracy in America authentic map and directory. A map of communist, Nazi, and Fascist headquarters in the United States, compiled and edited by Joseph P. Kamp and A. Cloyd Gill in 1941.

Tags: anti-communism, communism, fascism, map, nazi

Campaign Brochure, Mississippi's Senior United States Senator Theodore G. Bilbo

Brochure cover featuring a photograph of Theodore G. Bilbo with his hand in his pocket in a 3-piece suit and the following text.<br />
Mississippi’s <br />
Senior<br />
United States Senator<br />
Theodore G. Bilbo

Campaign brochure for Theodore G. Bilbo for his run for United States Senate.

Tags: Campaign, Mississippi, Senator, Southern Democrat, Theodore G. Bilbo, United States Senate

Annalen der brittischen Geschichte des Jahrs 1788 [-1793] als eine Fortsetzung des Werks England und Italien

Photograph of the spines of 5 volumes ofAnnalen der brittischen Geschichte des Jahrs 1788 [-1793] als eine Fortsetzung des Werks England und Italien.

Tags: 18th century, Great Britain, History, Leather bound, Marbled Paper

Bibliothèque choisie de médecine : tirée des ouvrages périodiques, tant françois qu'etrangers : avec plusieurs autres piéces rares, & des remarques utiles & curieuses

The front cover of Bibliothèque choisie de médecine : tirée des ouvrages périodiques, tant françois qu'etrangers : avec plusieurs autres piéces rares, & des remarques utiles & curieuses.

Tags: Engravings, French, Marbled calf, Marbled Endpaper, Medicine, Natural History, Physics

Correspondence of Lord Byron, with a friend : including his letters to his mother, written from Portugal, Spain, Greece, and the shores of the Mediterranean, in 1809, 1810 and 1811 / also, recollections of the poet, by the late R.C. Dallas, the whole forming an original memoir of Lord Byron's life, from 1808 to 1814, and a continuation and preliminary statement of the proceedings by which the letters were suppressed in England, at the suit of Lord Byron's executors, by the Rev. A.R.C. Dallas.

Front cover ofCorrespondence of Lord Byron, with a friend : including his letters to his mother, written from Portugal, Spain, Greece, and the shores of the Mediterranean, in 1809, 1810 and 1811 / also, recollections of the poet, by the late R.C. Dallas, the whole forming an original memoir of Lord Byron's life, from 1808 to 1814, and a continuation and preliminary statement of the proceedings by which the letters were suppressed in England, at the suit of Lord Byron's executors, by the Rev. A.R.C. Dallas.

Tags: 19th century, Bookseller bookplate, Greece, Letters, Lord Byron, Portugal, Spain

Des Ritters Carl von Linné Vollständiges Natursystem : Supplements- und Register-band über aller sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs ...

The front cover of Des Ritters Carl von Linné Vollständiges Natursystem : Supplements- und Register-band über aller sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs....

Tags: Animals, Classes, Engravings, Illustrations, Natural History, Zoology

Die wahre Andacht zu Gott samt dazu gehörige Betrachtung für eifrige Christen

Front cover ofDie wahre Andacht zu Gott samt dazu gehörige Betrachtung für eifrige Christen.

Holograph manuscript with hand-drawn colored illustrations; written in a bound blank book.

Tags: Catholic, Church, Decorative endpaper, Devotions, Hand-drawn illustrations, Illustrations, Leather tooling, Manuscript, Prayer Book

Elémens de fortification : contenant la construction raisonnée des ouvrages de la fortification ... &c : avec un plan des principales instructions pour former les jeunes officiers dans la science militaire

Front cover of Elémens de fortification : contenant la construction raisonnée des ouvrages de la fortification ... &c : avec un plan des principales instructions pour former les jeunes officiers dans la science militaire.

Tags: Construction, Fortifications, France, History, Mathematician, Military, War

Essays on his own times; forming a second series of The Friend

The front cover of Essays on his own times; forming a second series of The Friend.

Tags: Bookseller Mark, Coleridge, Essays, Marbled Paper, morality, Morning Post, Political Science, Sara Coleridge, Watchman

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