Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nightmare at this time last year to the millions who live in its lower basin, the Mississippi River is a nightmare to President Coolidge now. Last week, alarmed by reports that the Flood Control bill, which the Senate shoved through last fortnight, might cost the U. S. a billion or $1,500,000,000, the President sent for Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, his Flood Control spokesman. Mr. Madden was sick abed but up he got and to the White House he went. When Mr. Madden emerged from the conference he said the President...
...hundred potent citizens of Milan-bankers, industrialists and men of science -sat down to luncheon, with a U. S. guest of honor who piqued their curiosity. He was, they understood, a financier whose unusual hobby is to acquire control of clean, smart, pedigreed industries. At present Mr. Aldred and his associates are the bankers for the firms which produce razors stamped "Gillette," silverware with the venerable Manhattan hall mark "Gorham," and U.S.-made motor cars bearing the nameplate "Rolls-Royce." Clearly this guest, this Signor John E. Aldred, was worthy of Italian observation. Especially so, because today the Manhattan financial...
...book three times and I don't know yet just what this companionate marriage is. It sounds like trial marriage to me. No one knows better than I that all marriages are trials. . . . You know, our poor benighted parents didn't believe in this birth control. If they had, we wouldn't be here tonight debating whether or not we should believe...
...Lindsey frowned at these flippancies. He said: "My opponent knows he has a weak case so he jokes with the jury. . . . Let us have done with lies and hypocrisy. Ninety per cent of married people practice birth control. Let us legalize it and get away from the bootlegged devices of the corner drug store. ... I am not for free love. . . . The companionate marriage is real marriage. It will put an end to the immorality of the present day and correct the divorce evil. Young people with the fear of children removed can marry earlier. They can have children when they...
...essence, companionate marriage is merely marriage without the expectation, immediate or otherwise, of propagation and with the possibility of divorce by mutual consent. Its adherents suggest legalized birth control, more complete sexual education for boys and girls...