Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your comments on abortion were excellent. However, in discussing ways to attack the problem, you omitted mention of the one step which would provide a simple, scientific, ethical solution: make birth-control information available to all married women through . . . established public health services. For the Catholics, this could be the rhythm method sanctioned by their church; but for all others, it would be the safe and reliable methods recommended by physicians...
...Tonight, I'm going to mention plenty of bad practices by labor; and plenty by management also. . . . But, gentlemen of labor, I'll tell you something straight. Right now you have a priority at the mourners' bench. . . . You're just where we of management were ten years...
...anyone can see who knows or cares anything about the seriousness of the subject, the makers of the film have not included any of the dynamite implicit in a truly forthright treatment of the subject. There is no mention of segregation, of friction between Negro soldiers and white soldiers and civilians. But Carlton Moss, a Negro who wrote the film's script, was overall adviser for the production and acted in it, assured white friends who were discouraged by its mildness that the picture would mean more to Negroes than most white men could imagine...
...competition of scientific aptitude tests, essays, school work and interviews.* They were competing for two top scholarships of $2,400 each and a number of lesser ones offered by Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., a partner in the project. The tests are so tough that the 300 who get honorable mention each year are automatically assured college scholarships. College offers have ranged up to $10,000 to a prizewinner. At last week's end, the judges, headed by famed Harvard Astronomer Harlow Shapley, picked as the best of the 1944 field...
Promptly he packed the fifth floor of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, department store with two and a half acres of medieval armor, Hispano-Moresque pottery, Dutch masters, and other art objects too numerous to mention. By last month the total sales of these and other Hammer enterprises were near $15 million...