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...boats which took to the water yesterday were Donald G. Parrot, John L. Bremer, 2nd, Walter N. Kernan, 2nd, Phillips Hallowell, John R. Richards, George W. Overton, Jr., John N. Fulham, Jr., Bayard H. Dillingham, Alexander B. Comstock, Jr., John J. Rowe, Jr., John B. Lloyd, Robert W. Harding, Lawrence M. Rile '39, Roger A. Derby, Jr., Thomas E. McCormick, Jr., and David Stiles...
...loose from her brother, lived around in various hotels, speculated with an inheritance, made money for a while, ended up broke in 1880. Being also unhappy in love, she tried to kill herself by drinking poison. When she met rich U. S. Senator William Sharon, "King of the Comstock Lode," she was glad she had failed. He owned two of San Francisco's hotels, the Grand and the Palace, and shortly installed Sarah Althea in the Grand while he stayed at the Palace. There was a cross-street bridge connecting their residences...
...Manhattan Birth Control Bureau, first and busiest of 283 similar centres now disseminating information and supplies in 42 states. U. S. customs officials promptly confiscated the pessaries under the Tariff Act of 1930. That law is the result of a Federal statute which the late gorilla-like prude, Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), rammed down Congress' throat in 1873. These statutes lump contraceptives with abortifacients, smutty writings and lewd picture postcards as "obscene," and forbid anyone to import, mail or ship them across state boundaries...
...Brooklyn ordered the customs officials to give Dr. Stone her pessaries on the grounds that contraceptives might save the life and health of women, that therefore police officers who prevented the use of contraceptives interfered with the prerogatives of physicians. The decision practically canceled the whole series of "Comstock laws." Reluctant to yield to reversal of a 63-year-old U. S. prohibition, Government lawyers appealed to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Manhattan, who last week upheld the Moscowitz decision, enabled Mrs. Sanger to crow: "Contraceptive material may be lawfully admitted into this country and disseminated...
...candidate for office, and hence less philosophic than Governor Curley (see above), is Michigan's onetime (1932-35) Governor William Alfred Comstock, a Democratic wheelhorse who went bankrupt last year, but whose cash and efforts had been credited with sustaining his Party in Michigan through some 30 lean, mostly Republican, years. Charging that National Chairman Farley had broken a 1932 promise to distribute Michigan's Federal jobs through the regular Party organization, handing patronage instead to such political parvenus as Father Coughlin, Democrat Comstock last week announced his resignation from the Party. Cried he: "The Hogskis...