Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connecticut, it is still a misdemeanor for a doctor to advise, or a citizen to practice, birth control.* This 68-year-old blue law, a relic of Anthony Comstock's crusades, is widely disregarded, seldom enforced. But Connecticut's doctors, who object to being lawbreakers, even technically, have tried eleven times in the past 24 years to get the law repealed. Last week, as they tried once again, Connecticut medicine was shaken by one of its biggest rows in years...
...Committee of 100" to sponsor a mild bill which would permit a doctor to give birth-control information to a patient whose health or life might be endangered by pregnancy. Roman Catholic spokesmen promptly opposed it. But the doctors had some unprecedented support: the Hartford Courant, first major Connecticut newspaper ever to come out on their side, 500 ministers, an Elmo Roper poll which showed that 85% of the state's citizens (including 75% of its Roman Catholics) favored the bill in principle...
...Crimson overcame an early Connecticut lead Friday afternoon to subdue the U-Conns at Soldiers Field, 13 to 7. Coach Adolph Samborski's squad has now won five games in seven starts...
...victory over the U-Conns on Saturday, relief pitcher Ira Godin took over from starter Jack Wallace in the fourth inning and allowed Connecticut only two hits as the Varsity rallied...
Coach Adolph Samborski's squad returns to Soldiers Field today for a 4 o'clock joust with the University of Connecticut, and will meet a traditionally powerful Holy Cross nine at Fitton Field, Worcester, at 2 o'clock tomorrow. Righthander Jack Wallace will start against the U-Conns, and Red Connolly will be thrown against his former colleagues at Worcester tomorrow...