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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remind this Court," continued M. Boverat, "that public morality and the birthrate are intimately interrelated. Our researches incontrovertibly substantiate this fact. French Canada, a country with the highest morals, has the highest birth rate. In Germany, too, the statistics are pertinent. Since Adolf Hitler suppressed nude dancing the Nazi birthrate has risen 35,000 a year. Finally, I submit that this is not Chicago. This is Paris! How are people to know that she is an American and not a Frenchwomen? We have the good name of Paris and of France to think of! I demand that she be punished...
...Dutch by no means rate Rembrandt the greatest Dutchman ever. The Rijksmuseum ordinarily shows its Rembrandts scattered among other 17th Century Dutch masters such as Jan Steen and Frans Hals, in some six rooms. Four years ago a Dutch court methodically turned down the whimsical application of U. S. Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon, collateral descendant of Rembrandt's wife, to have Rembrandt's 262-year-old bankruptcy wiped from the records...
...Amsterdam from the famed Burgomaster Jan Six to his Amsterdam Ghetto neighbors, the Portuguese Jews, and the tramps and prostitutes along the spotless city's spotty waterfront. He spent most of his life turning out an amazing total of paintings, etchings and drawings, most of them first rate...
Last week the U. S. Census Bureau completed its 1934 survey of U. S. families, announced without whys & wherefores that for the first time in a decade the U. S. birth rate had ceased to fall. In 1934, 2,158,919 babies were born, an average of 17.1 per 1,000 population...
...Moscow last week the Widow Lenin put in her 2? worth against Josef Stalin's current drive to reduce the Russian divorce rate and inculcate a few bourgeois virtues among Soviet mates. Russians had heard rumors, and foreign correspondents had obtained confirmation, that the Dictator will soon drastically tighten up proverbially loose Bolshevik divorce laws. In a panic to get in under the wire, every Moscow mate who has recently thought of divorce was last week jamming the official bureaus, called "Zags," and they had the entire sympathy of the Widow Lenin...