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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arguments Pro. The argument of the birth control propagandists is essentially as follows: The present law is unevenly enforced. The well- todo, educated part of the population, especially the professional groups, many of whom oppose any relaxation of the present restrictions, generally have access to such knowledge and are obviously limiting the number of their children. The birthrate of the United States, now about 22 per thousand population, as well as of all the more advanced countries, has declined steadily in the past half century since the agitation for birth control (starting in England with Robert Owen, Francis Place...
...think fit, at his own discretion. And, as it is possible that some person may desire to write a memoir of my life, I enjoin upon my executors and each of them to refuse to aid or encourage any such designs and not allow any such person to have access to any of my papers, whether personal or acquired in the course of official duty, either for perusal or otherwise...
...also desire that the same refusal of access to my papers shall be extended to persons writing memoirs or biographies of friends of mine or others...
Presumably under considerable pressure from the agricultural sections, Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture demanded that Swift & Co., the Wilson Packing Co. and the Cudahy Packing Co. give federal auditors full access to their accounts, records, documents. The demand was made for the express purpose of determining how far the companies are buyers and sellers of live stock and products manufactured from live stock, how far they are engaged in interstate commerce, and to audit figures previously submitted to the Government to determine if they are correct...
...fact that many prominent business men from all over the country have been sufficiently interested to give access to their files to the Bureau of Business Research as a source of teaching material suggests the place that organization must hold in the minds of the leaders of industry...