Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former State Librarian. At 73, he is slightly deaf and his voice quavers, but he has a great air of wisdom. He also has six children (by his first wife) and he is Congress' chief advocate of permitting the dissemination of birth control information. Last week on the 21st anniversary of the birth control movement, the Judiciary Committee of the House by vote of 15-to-8 killed his birth control bill. He shook his head in grief, refused to say what his next move would be. Wags suggested a processing tax. Margaret Sanger, however, refused...
...Bellamy's Looking Backward lay on the tenants' table in Apartment 4 C. The chief tenant was Eugene John Reed, 47, who was once a partner in an investment banking house in Denver. His co-tenants were Chester A. Arthur Jr.,* 33-year-old grandson of the 21st President of the U. S., and Dunham Thorp, onetime editor of a literary magazine in California. All three had taken up residence in Greenwich Village with a small table, some wicker chairs, a few cots. Thus did Utopia move East. Three years ago Mr. Reed left his brokerage business...
...21st Century historians will record-so every true Fascist believes-that it was Benito Mussolini who gave to mankind in the 20th Century a new and better kind of state: the Corporative State...
When Utah ratified the 21st Amendment last year and put an end to 14 years of Prohibition, Drys balefully predicted that drunken drivers would henceforth make highways avenues of death. First straw in the wind tickled many a Dry last week when statistics revealing a nationwide increase in drunken drivers were released in Washington by Dr. Theron Wendell Kilmer, police surgeon of Hempstead, L. I. To the convention of the International Association of Police Chiefs Dr. Kilmer reported that tipsy driving cases had jumped 479% in Los Angeles; 380% in Cincinnati; 300% in Philadelphia; 122% in New Orleans. Among States...
...with a 33,000 majority. Each contestant dodged the Prohibition issue by declaring he would stand by the results of an advisory referendum which, held a fortnight before, turned out to be Wet by 23,000 votes in spite of the State's failure to ratify the 21st Amendment...