Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Noah Henry Slee, president of Three-in-One Oil Co., gives a biblical tithe of his income to the American Birth Control League, great controvert of the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply. His interest in the League is threefold. He is by hobby a sociologist, by avocation treasurer of the League, by choice husband (since 1922) of Margaret Sanger, the League's founder (in 1921). Between 1921 and 1926 his givings totaled $56,141, which he carefully deducted from his taxable income, because the American Birth Control League exists for "charitable, scientific and educational purposes...
...Donald McKee, captioned "Why the March Hare Was Mad." It depicted a buck hare hopping furiously beside a huge bed on whose three pillows lay an abashed, puzzled doe hare with nine newborn.* Harold the buck hare: "Again? What's the idea? Did you never hear of Birth Control...
Margaret Sanger, chief U. S. prophetess of Birth Control, is now devoting herself to the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan...
There appeared lately a book unique in U. S. medical history. It is Technique of Contraception: the Principles & Practice of Anti-Conceptional Methods, by Dr. James F. Cooper, medical director of the Clinical Research Department of the American Birth Control League. No such book has ever before been printed in the U. S., nor made available, because the Government has forbidden the importation from England of the only other book of its kind in English, Marie Carmichael Slopes's Contraception: its Theory, History and Practice. In German Dr. Alfred Grotjahn, professor of social hygiene at the University of Berlin...
...Cooper's Technique of Contraception deals with the significance of birth control, the basic phases of contraception, temporary and permanent methods of contraception, a contraceptive method new to the U. S., contraceptive fallacies, physical and mental effects of contraception, investigations. Day-Nichols, Inc., of Manhattan, publish the book for $7.50. They may sell it only to doctors. They may not send it through the mails, must ship it by express...