Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan must have more babies!" the baron cried. "It is a deplorable fact that young women of today are practicing birth control in the interests of beauty. They claim children spoil their beauty. This philosophy is a tragic mistake. Japan must have more babies...
There were a few titters in the gallery. Some women frowned, others modestly bowed their heads, exhibiting still further their fetching necks. The baron plunged right into the subject of birth control until the Speaker of the House hastily cut him short, declared "This discussion has gone too deeply into details...
...convenience of the 26,000,000 married couples in the U. S., there exist 374 birth control clinics, whereas a generation ago there were none. Nevertheless, the 400 members of the American Birth Control League who met in Manhattan last week for their annual convention were disappointed because "probably not more than 200,000 married women" patronize those clinics, although 50% to 75% of the married couples in the U. S. want to space or prevent the birth of children...
...transferred from the War Department to TVA in 1933); to restrict de-velopment of four dams now under construction and a fifth authorized but not yet begun; to prevent TVA from getting Congressional funds for four more dams. TVA attorneys maintained that the dams were designed primarily for flood-control, improvement of navigation, and national defense. The company attorneys maintained that they were designed primarily to generate and sell electric power and to drive their private competitors out of the utility business...
...National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia. For purposes of their propaganda the Miami incident came in handy, occurring as it did the very day after Dr. Potter first publicly announced his organization and revealed that its trustees included Dr. Clarence Cook Little of the American Society for the Control of Cancer and of the American Birth Control League, and Secretary Leon Fradley Whitney of the American Eugenics Society...