Word: sanger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...biblical tithe of his income to the American Birth Control League, great controvert of the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply. His interest in the League is threefold. He is by hobby a sociologist, by avocation treasurer of the League, by choice husband (since 1922) of Margaret Sanger, the League's founder (in 1921). Between 1921 and 1926 his givings totaled $56,141, which he carefully deducted from his taxable income, because the American Birth Control League exists for "charitable, scientific and educational purposes...
...American laws," Mrs. Hodson concluded, "have made contraception a purely medical matter. Margaret Sanger made it possible for a woman to whom another pregnancy might bring death or severe illness to obtain knowledge of contraceptive measures, and it is under this cloak that much information is given out. But it is necessary, if we desire to decrease the pauper classes, to institute an unhampered program of research into contraceptive questions to discover, if possible, a simple way to free poor or feeble minded women from the burden of families too large to be brought up with safety...
...Margaret Sanger, famed apostle of Birth Control. Reason: "Most politicians go in for externals but Mr. Hoover has his interest embedded in fundamentals. ... It was Mr. Hoover's regard for child life that...
Resigned. Mrs. Margaret Sanger of Manhattan; from the presidency of the American Birth Control League...
...clock: Mrs. Afred C. Hanford, Mrs. Wilbur C. Abbott, Mrs. Thorndike Howe, Mrs. Charles S. Heard, Mrs. William C. Sanger, Mrs. Moses Williams...