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...Parenthood in behalf of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Federation of America. It was the first time in the U. S. that newspaper space had been sold to advertise birth control. The ad urged that birth-control information be given to parents in "homesteads, mining districts, slums and migrant camps," asked citizens to donate money and services to the Federation. Within two days, the Birth Controllers received almost 500 letters-all but five sympathetic...
...appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his personal ambassador to the Vatican, pledged aid to war refugees, agreed that Congregationalist ministers' salaries (average: $1,640) are too low. Between sessions, they made earnest "trips of social exploration" through San Francisco's Japanese and Chinese section, toured migrant camps (said the prospectus: "Delegates to watch under bridges and beside roads for migrants, and show friendly spirit and talk to them...
...years ago to a lawyer mother and a lawyer father in Elwood, Ind., now wanted to be President. This Willkie boy had worked as a harvest hand in Minnesota, in the oil fields of Texas, had run a tent hotel in a Colorado boom town, worked as a migrant laborer in California. He had gone to Indiana University, been admitted to the bar, married pretty Edith Wilk, an Indiana girl. He had gone to war in France. He had returned to practice law, become the head of billion-dollar Commonwealth & Southern Corp. . . . Gravely Mr. Willkie listened. Halleck had left...
...company with Cinemactors Helen Gahagan and Melvyn Douglas, she saw Okies at home: overalled migrant farmers, their wives and children in poor Sunday best, in squatters' camps by roadsides, private camps on big farms. U.S. Government camps and a Federal cooperative farm. "My, ain't they nice!" said a migrant wife at Visalia, admiring Mrs. Roosevelt's manicure hands (see cut). " A fine lady," said Mrs. W.N. Pace. "She's nice looking, too-just as homey...
East Salinas is better established than most migrant-built towns, because Salinas packing sheds provide steadier work. Californians do not like to talk about migrants successfully absorbed into California life, for fear of attracting more migrants. Social workers worry about the danger that Little Oklahomas may become "rural slums." But they note that health statistics are normal, juvenile delinquency shows no upping in Little Oklahomas, that such towns are "teeming with hopeful life...