Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference on Conservation of Marriage and the Family. Rev. Edgar Schmiedeler, of the National Catholic Welfare Council, said marriage was a divine institution not to be profaned by human meddling. But other delegates declared that colleges and even high schools must give young people "scientific preparation for marriage and parenthood...
...agitated the new president of the League, Dr. Richard Norris Pierson, fashionable Manhattan obstetrician, was the need for money. He did not know just how much money the Birth Controllers would need for their year's program. But they already have planned their spring campaign. The slogan: "Planned Parenthood...
...WOULD BE PRIVATE-Rose Macaulay -Harper ($2.50). Horrified by the publicity of quintuplet parenthood, upright London Policeman McBrown & family flee in vain to a remote Caribbean island...
...motives are unimportant. A good thing is a good thing, however accomplished. If more such starry-eyed innocents appear in the New Deal brood, we shall have to withdraw our uncompromising snobbery; they must be judged of themselves, not for their parenthood. President Roosevelt deserves the greatest credit for showing politicians of the most successful variety a way of extending indefinitely and forever the scope of honest and intelligent administration in government. Give your friends longer and better jobs; insure that when they die off they will be replaced by their betters...
Like home towns, native States wait to see how their wandering boys turn out before they boom their claims to parenthood. Early U. S. frontiersmen, born in the Original 13 States, were doubtful characters. Even those who made good generally had to bury their crudities a long time in the grave before the genteel seaboard was ready to honor itself by claiming them as native sons. Few have waited so long as great Sam Houston...