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...Grace's suggestion was received with marked apathy not only by businessmen but by nearly all politicians, anxious to sweeten taxpayers' tempers. Raged Economist Francis W. Hirst in the Times...
Babies. Professor Everett Dudley Plass of Iowa University asked the American Medical Association to consider birth control.* Dr. Barton Cooke Hirst of Philadelphia argued vehemently against the subject. "An undue limitation of fecundity has been one of the precursors to the extinction of a civilization or the subjugation of a people by a more virile and prolific race. We have already gone some distance on this road. . . . If a breeder of livestock defied the laws of eugenics as we do. he would be ruined." The A. M. A. as usual pigeonholed the subject...
...next act was 100% kingly. He ordered the Government of Bombay to arrest Mr. Gandhi in the dead of night and lodge him before dawn in Yerovda Jail near Poona, where the Mahatma had twice before been imprisoned (1926, 1930). At 3 a. m. Police Commissioner Wilson, Inspector Hirst and two strapping Indian policemen climbed the tenement stairs, approached the tent with-in which Mr. Gandhi was sleeping, bearing a warrant arresting the Mahatma "for good and sufficient reasons." Under a century-old ordinance enacted in the reign of King George IV. 50 years before Britain became an Empire, Prisoner...
...apologizing like gentlemen for your oversight, you indulged in spite-silly sneers at my efforts to earn a living from journalism. Not even inveterate personal rancor, of which you have given innumerable proofs, can justify such methods. "You always refer with the curled lip of assumed superiority to the Hirst [sic] press, edited as it is by Mr. Brisbane, one of the most brilliant publicists in the world. I challenge you to produce from the Hirst newspapers such a gross example of journalistic dishonesty as I have now exposed." Editor Dawson's retorts: 1) He printed the Lloyd George...
British G.E.-U.S.G.E. No direct connection has existed between Gerard Swope's U. S. General Electric Co. and Sir Hugo Hirst's British General Electric Co.. Ltd., onetime (TIME, April 1, et seq.) prominent exponent of the Britain-for-the-British financial theory. Last week, however, such a connection was rumored in the report that British G. E. contemplated merging with Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., largest British makers of electrical equipment. Inasmuch as Associated Electrical Industries is about one-third owned by International Electric Co., and as this latter corporation is a subsidiary of U. S. General Electric...