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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sanger's father, Michael Hennessy Higgins, was an easygoing, loquacious, free-thinking carver of tombstone saints at Corning, N. Y. He died at 80. Her mother was a tight, aggressive little body who bore eleven children and died at 48. Margaret Higgins, sixth child, was born in 1883, developed tuberculosis from which she recovered only after bearing three children to William Sanger, an architect whom she married in 1900 and divorced in 1921. Now he practices architecture in Albany, N. Y. Of the children, Peggy, the youngest, died when 4 years old. Stuart, 30, Yale '28, once...
...Somewhat over 2,000,000 babies are born alive in the U. S. each year...
Might smoking disagree with a baby before it was born? asked Antioch College's Drs. Lester Warren Sontag and Robert F. Wallace. While pregnant women who had smoked for years and one who never before had smoked, puffed cigarets, the Antioch doctors held stethoscopes to the mothers' abdomens, listened to the beatings of the baby hearts. Smoking promptly sent the fetal heart beats up from 144 to 149 beats a minute. This made the Antioch doctors conclude: "It is not improbable that maternal smoking during pregnancy may have permanently harmful effects upon the child...
Like two cranky old Civil War generals fighting Gettysburg over again, Messrs. Glass & Owen, born scarcely a block apart in Lynchburg, Va., had at each other again last week when Mr. Owen, onetime Indian Agent for the Five Civilized Tribes, accused Senator Glass of "using an undeserved prestige as an expert in monetary science against the public interest...
...Born. To Sarah Schuyler Butler Lawrence, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, and Captain Neville Lawrence, London banker: a son; in London...