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...Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives and the Judiciary subcommittee of the Senate to consider duplicate bills which would permit physicians, hospitals & clinics complete freedom to learn about contraceptives. Fortnight ago the House committee ?at the insistence of Massachusetts' Representative John M. McCormack (Knight of Columbus, Elk, Moose, Forester, Hibernian) ? pigeonholed Mrs. Sanger's bill. Her angry clarion stirred Birth Controllers throughout the land to telegraph their displeasure to their Congressmen last week, while the Senate committee was diffidently hearing other of her supporters. After listening to advocates of the movement the Senators postponed the hearings...
Into the forest wilderness, where the elk drinks from the secret brooks and from ageless marshes the bittern boom, comes Uvadiev, with Favorov an engineer and Suzanne a chemist, to oversee the building of a great paper-pulp factory at Makarikha on the river Sot. Lost, they put up over night at the secret hermitage of Meleti, full of weird monks full of weird ideas. Hostile to Soviet innovations, they expound their general attitude at endless fantastic conversational length?"our Lord has not only chastized this earth with fools, he has afflicted it also with the wise." Wiseman Uvadiev...
...York State Senate, storming Manhattan's "Silk Stocking District" during a Republican landslide. He kept his seat until 1926. He has long been in the crockery business. His company, Nathan Straus & Sons Inc., is the biggest U. S. maker of hotel & restaurant equipment. He is an Elk, a Moose. Most Manhattanites regard him, chiefly for his long-time interest in city parks and planning, as one of their most civic-minded...
Knee (1890) buried the Indian's dream in blood and snow. Black Elk leaves his story there, concludes: "I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth-you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer and the sacred tree is dead...
...Author, Poet Laureate of Nebraska, Author Neihardt knows his Indians well. To the Omahas he is Tae Nuga Zhinga (Little Bull Buffalo); to the Sioux, Igimou Chicakala (Little Cat). He first went to interview Black Elk to get tales of great Chief Crazy Horse; returned for an extended stay to write down the old man's own story. At its conclusion the party went to the top of Harney Peak. There the medicine man delivered his final lamentation for his people; from a droughty sky he called rain to accompany his tears. Black Elk's friend Standing Bear...