MILESTONES: December 7, birthdays for Sara Bareilles, Terrell Owens, Nicholas Hoult
Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 344th day of the year.
On this day in 1947, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle front page reported on a Jewish-Arab skirmish in three Arab neighborhoods near Tel Aviv. However, it was a local skirmish that angered New Yorkers — the decision to ban religious-themed Christmas carols from New York City school holiday programs. That decision was made by Assistant Superintendent of Schools Isaac Bildersee. Among the toughest critics of Bildersee’s ban was Mayor William O’Dwyer, who went so far as to accuse Bildersee of being less “solicitous” of banning Communists and other “Anti-God and Anti-American ideologies.”
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