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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old California bachelor and onetime junior golf champion named Daniel Hill Sangster is the publisher of the new magazine which, because of its special public, need get out a new edition but once a year. Publisher Sangster's notion is to give a volume called Congratulations free to every woman who has a baby in a top-notch private U. S. hospital. Profits are to come from advertising sold to baby-food makers, perambulator manufacturers, insurance companies, and anyone else with a message for mothers...
...Bryant Conant tried a fast telemark, snapped a ski, tumbled, snapped his left collarbone. Rushed back to Cambridge, crippled Scholar Conant rallied sufficiently to make his first political statement since assuming the Harvard presidency, denouncing Harvardman Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan as "contrary to the spirit of a free, democratic government" and "dangerous in the extreme...
...amount of sugar U. S. refiners may refine. The price of raw sugar is affected directly by tariffs, which are not uniform, Cuba getting a preferential per lb. levy, other foreign countries paying 1.875^, while U. S. insular possessions like Hawaii and the Philippines ship in sugar duty free...
Strangest of U. S. social experiments, these communist groups are now vaguely remembered as something between a co-operative and a free-love colony. Most suc cessful, most notorious of all communist experiments was the Oneida Community, scene of the "world's one great experiment in human eugenics." The subject of many a historical sidelight, Oneida Community last week filled the background of an auto biography written by one of its "eugenic" descendants, whose father, John Humphrey Noyes, founded and led the Community for more than 30 years in the light of "scientific propagation and true Christian Communism...
...barnstormed New England preaching "Perfectionism," collected a colony of 38 men and 53 women to start off the Oneida venture, which began in a log house in 1847. Four years later membership had jumped to 205 (peak membership: 300), and the world was cocking an eye at these scandalous "free lovers" who called their goings-on "stirpiculture." Within the Community, eugenically weak males struck at the favoritism shown their betters, got a skim-milk ruling that they could father one child. The favored, select, few "stirps" took the cream. Work was planned collectively, law & order in the same way. Noting...