Word: births
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the first eight months of it required something more than $17,600,000 per day to finance the birth and the growth of U. S. industry. Total new financing up to Aug. 31 reached the figure of $4,231,847,000-money raised at the rate of a half billion a month or six billion a year. This figure included stocks, bonds and notes, but did not include real estate or municipal securities either in this country or Canada. Except for a comparatively small amount of financing by Canadian corporations and by foreign corporations, cities and governments, it represented...
...Little has been active in the interests of birth control, as director of the American Birth Control League since 1925. In 1921 he was secretary-general and chairman of the executive committee of the Second International Congress of Eugenics in New York. At one time during the World War he was commanding captain of the Aviation Department, Reserve Corps, and later a major in the Adjutant General's department. He is the author of a number of articles on genetics and cancer research...
...home town," Westerville, birth- place of the Anti-Saloon League, was visited promptly by reporters from Columbus, Ohio. They reported that recently for the first time in history the village council had had to appropriate ($500) for prohibition enforcement, that malt and hops were on sale, that the students of Otterbein College, Westerville's seat of learning, could tell of at least two Columbus bootleggers "with a rural trade" who visit Westerville regularly...
...What," asked he, "in reality is the ground of the demand for extended facilities for divorces, birth prevention and the like? Simply that these instincts and passions are entitled to self-gratification, though in seeking it they contravene Christian or even natural law. . . . How can those who deliberately interfere with the natural processes of life preach purity to women? . . . Their evil books are studied by the young whom matrimony never joined. Writers, painters, and actors on the screen and stage, women by the fashion of their dress, who render self-control more difficult and thereby make natural craving for sinful...
...Carrie Williams (Roger Quincy Williams flew the Atlantic this summer) : "For a whole year at a time I hardly see Roger at all. . . . The economic conditions of aviation make our living as insecure as everything else. . . . The mother of the baby girl across the street died at her birth, and I've taken a great deal of care of her. When she puts her arms around my neck and grabs me with her little legs and holds on so tight she grunts - then, I think, I realize most of all the difficulties of being an aviator's wife...