Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years and soaring steadily. The New Deal has spent millions on the Island's economic rehabilitation, but students have long been convinced that the one basic remedy for the Islanders' appalling poverty is to cut their appalling birthrate. Every move to legalize dissemination of birth control information, however, has been stopped dead by Roman Catholic clergy...
...Ernest Gruening, able director of the Department of the Interior's Division of Territories & Island Possessions, thought he had struck a truce with San Juan's Bishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, opened up 15 birth control stations. The Bishop's roars soon drove him to cover. Last week Bishop Byrne was roaring again because both houses of Puerto Rico's Legislature had just passed a bill permitting physicians to tell their patients about birth control. Governor Blanton Winship's predecessor, Catholic Robert H. Gore, began his term by announcing that he trusted in God to control...
...Tisdale, a big, florid Alabaman of 45, is director of Du Font's new anti-pest laboratory which was formally opened last week in the suburbs of Wilmington, and of which the formal name is Pest Control Research Section, Grasselli Chemicals Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. A handful of newshawks assembled in the gleaming Nemours building, lunched with Lammot du Pont, who shook each one's hand, spent the afternoon in the battleship-grey laboratory, wound up at the Hotel du Pont...
...persuaded Orson Welles, one of the country's ablest classical actors, to take the leading role and that morning Burgess Meredith (High Tor, Winterset), the most promising juvenile on the U. S. stage, had walked in, asked for and been given a part. With notables waiting in the control room, with the 200 supers and actors standing by to go on the air, Bang! opened the Armory door and Whooash! entered two five-ton Army trucks. The trucks were soon quieted and the excitement they caused passed. But the excitement caused by the show that took place during...
Died. Brigadier General Thomas Herbert Jackson, 63, U. S. Army engineer; in China, where he had paused on a world cruise with his wife. He designed and supervised the building of the Sacramento River $50,000,000 flood-control system, as head of the Mississippi River Commission (1928-32) directed the beginning and a major portion of the Federal Government's $1,000,000,000 flood-control construction in the Lower Mississippi Valley...