Word: antivivisectionist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friendly toward the A. S. P. C. A. and the American Humane Association, although the friendship is not entirely reciprocated, are numerous national and local antivivisectionist societies which devote their energies to attacking scientists who use animals for experiments. To them antitoxins and serums produced by infecting animals with disease are anathema. Most prolific distributor of antivivisectionist literature is the Vivisection Investigation League, headed by 81-year-old Sue M. Farrell, who learned her humanitarianism direct from agnostic Robert Ingersoll; anti-vivisectionists also include such unusual celebrities as Fannie Hurst, George Arliss, Ellen Glasgow, Mahatma Gandhi. Irene Castle McLaughlin...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin, onetime ballroom dancer and fashionplate, now an antivivisectionist; from her third husband Major Frederic McLaughlin, millionaire coffee importer, owner of the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team; charging cruelty, and asking custody of their twelve-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son; in Chicago. Mrs. McLaughlin's first husband and dancing partner, Briton Vernon Castle, was killed in 1918 while instructing U. S. students at a Texas flying school; her second, Capt. Robert E. Treman of Ithaca, N. Y., divorced...
...attended her funeral. Born of a theatrical family, Mrs. Fiske began her career at the age of three; it extended, except for a four year retirement after she married Harrison Grey Fiske, until she was forced to relinquish her engagement in Chicago last November. A strict vegetarian, a militant antivivisectionist, she was famed for her fanatical fight against wearing furs. Typical of many a eulogy last week was Producer George Grouse Tyler's: "Mrs. Fiske was the last great actress of our period. . . . Not in this generation, perhaps not for several . . . will the theatre again have a figure...
...Manhattan last week at their semi-annual International Conference for the Investigation of Vivisection, anti-vivisectionists displayed their might and main. Their might: 150 delegates, representing 125 U. S. humane and antivivisectionist societies. Their main: protest to President Hoover against the "political activities of the U. S. Public Health Service and U. S. Army in opposition to a bill to exempt dogs from vivisection in the District of Columbia"; a protest to Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland that his State Board of Health has been active against anti-vivisectionists. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Senatorial candidate in Illinois, telegraphed...