Word: sanger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Margaret Sanger last week had a second opportunity to beg Congress to lift Federal inhibitions against Birth Control. Senator Frederick Huntington Gillett, 79, Massachusetts, was her friend at court .his time. The other time (1924) her friend was another aged Senator, the late Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa, then 75. Senator Cummins had tried ineffectually to pass a law making contraceptive information and devices available to all the people, a liberty which Mrs. Sanger, a trained nurse, did not altogether approve. Senator Gillett is fostering a law to make such information and devices available only to doctors. If Congress were...
Nonetheless Senator Gillett, as chairman of a subcommittee of the Senate's Judiciary Committee, listened to Mrs. Sanger and a squad of supporters. Then he listened to her opponents. Assisting him was Senator Sam Gilbert Bratton, 42, of New Mexico. Senator William Edgar Borah. 65. of Idaho, member of the subcommittee, stayed away. Senators' wives crowded the hearing room...
...want parenthood to be regarded as something beyond and above a casual accident or a punishment as a result of shiftlessness and recklessness." -Mrs. Sanger...
Lack of interest has brought about the definite postponement of the McKinlock Hall smoker. This statement was made yesterday by Kent Sanger '34, president of the Dormitory Committee of McKinlock Hall...
Comments on the encyclical were not long in forthcoming. Onetime Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, champion of companionate marriage: "The rule proposed by the Pope is respected only by domestic animals." Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth control apostle: ". . . An insult to the intelligence of women." Rt. Rev. Benjamin Franklin Price Ivins, bishop coadjutor of Milwaukee (Episcopal): "Either birth control is generally practiced in America, or most women are incapable of motherhood." Humanist Charles Francis Potter: ". . . The new generation of Roman Catholics is quietly disregarding the teachings of that Church about birth control. There are fifty-four clinics in the United States giving...