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Margaret Sanger last week had a second opportunity to beg Congress to lift Federal inhibitions against Birth Control. Senator Frederick Huntington Gillett, 79, Massachusetts, was her friend at court .his time. The other time (1924) her friend was another aged Senator, the late Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa, then 75. Senator Cummins had tried ineffectually to pass a law making contraceptive information and devices available to all the people, a liberty which Mrs. Sanger, a trained nurse, did not altogether approve. Senator Gillett is fostering a law to make such information and devices available only to doctors. If Congress were...
Married. Lawyer John Charles Straton, second son of the late loud Baptist Preacher John Roach Straton of Calvary Church in Manhattan (died a year ago, TIME, Nov. 11); and Helen Sanford, daughter of Lawyer Francis Baird Sanford of Warwick, N. Y.; by Preacher Hillyer Hawthorne Straton (Lawyer Straton's brother) at the Reformed Church in Warwick...
Died. Rear Admiral George Washington Baird, 87, U. S. N. retired (he entered the service during the Civil War); at his home in Washington. In 1891 he supervised installation of electric lights in the White House...
Best known European name is that of John Logie Baird of London, a Scotsman whose company, Baird Television Corp., has been selling sets to Englishmen for four months, has established branches in many foreign countries (France, Germany, U. S.). Because owners have complained of the small size of televized images, Inventor Baird has, like Dr. Alexanderson of General Electric, spent the past year in enlarging his screen. Last fortnight, he gave a demonstration in the London Coliseum of his life-size images. English television programs are broadcast every...
...Orlebar, holder of the world's speed record (357.7 m. p. h.); Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, winner of the Schneider Cup (1929). Wingless heroes included Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin, British tennis player; Robert Cedric Sherriff, insurance broker, author of Journey's End; John L. Baird, inventor of the first practical television apparatus...