Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee's tireless 31-year campaign to make birth control legitimate in the U. S. passed another successful milestone. Three years ago Mrs. Sanger's good Japanese friend, Baroness Shizue Ishimoto, sent Mrs. Sanger's good Manhattan friend, Dr. Hannah Mayer Stone, 120 rubber pessaries. Dr. Stone intended to try the devices on 120 women clients of the 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...
...Business, the Federal Council should appoint a committee to tell the churches what companies are "run according to Jesus Christ." Moderator Babson diagnosed Protestantism's basic trouble as its declining birth rate, thus perplexing listeners who recalled that a year and a half ago he was for birth control as a cure for poverty...
...professors, as well as chamber music and the complete public program of this year's Harvard Tercentenary. Stocky, blond Engineer Lemmon, who was wireless operator on the George Washington when it took Woodrow Wilson to the Peace Conference, made a fortune from his patent on single-dial radio control, is now research chief for International Business Machines Corp. This week the Federal Communications Commission permitted WIXAL to double its power from ten kilowatts to 20, enough to make it clearly audible in Burma...
...Sarah Lawrence was now able to go her way alone. Said he: "Mr. Lawrence recognized his own advanced age and was concerned lest the college, inadequately endowed, fall prey to misfortune or more grasping hands. Mr. Lawrence sought a defensive alliance with Vassar, giving that college the power ... to control and finally take over Sarah Lawrence. ... All its powers Vassar now willingly lays down...
Navin, Briggs and Kelsey became good friends, and when Mr. Navin's partner died in 1918 Walter Briggs, president of Briggs Mfg. Co., and John Kelsey, who had built up Kelsey Wheel Co., each bought a quarter interest in the Tigers, but allowed Navin full control of the club...