Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dining-room of the club was jammed with the audience of 160 members and guests who assembled to hear Mrs. Sanger speak on birth control. She devoted 40 minutes to a formal plea for her cause and about the same length of time to answering questions...
...force of her arguments was established the most strongly when she declared that in 1924 alone she received 87,000 letters from women of the poorer classes asking for information on birth control, which advice she was unable to impart because of the narrowness of the laws. Birth control clinics in other countries, she said, are declared public utilities; in the United States they are suppressed as public nuisances...
...Inquiry into the Council's rights to investigate the armaments of Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, with a view to transferring to the League the functions of the Interallied Control Mission, which now does its best to keep a watchful eye on the armament activities of these countries...
...Discussion of a plan to control private manufacture of arms...
...tendency of our time is toward an increase of nervous irritability, so far as there is disclosed a want of self-control, a lack of poise and mastery, the sacrifice of the more permanent interests and satisfactions to others that are transient and corrupting, we find not only cause for regret but the need of bringing Up reinforcements through the consideration of what is best...