Word: sangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kent Sanger...
...impress the President and Congress, Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee called an "American Conference on Birth Control & National Recovery," to meet in Washington Jan. 15-17. Main argument: "With 3,500,000 American families dependent on relief for their bare subsistence, there has arisen an acute need for speed in removing the legal restrictions which hamper the poor families in their natural desire to curtail increase which only aggravates suffering and piles up still more enormous problems of public and private charity." Mrs. Sanger reports a "vast amount of bootlegging has sprung up" in contraceptive supplies. Contraceptive clinicians will...
...also, were William Hussey Page, Manhattan lawyer and onetime president of the New York Athletic Club; Horace Binney, retired surgeon-in-chief of the Boston City Hospital; Charles Page Perin (captain), Manhattan consulting engineer. Dr. Sumner Coolidge of Middleboro, Mass., and little Coxswain Sabin Pond Sanger, retired banker of Brookline. Mass. They disembarked at the Metropolitan Racing Club, brashly promised to row up the Charles again...
...nobody touch him"); pudgy Pieface; Horsethief, whose malady is obscure and horrid. Poison mean is Roy Wells (John Drew Colt), ringleader of the potato-peeling "Centipede's Club." Robert Locket (Edwin Philips) is the most sensitive young prisoner, a fact which early bodes him ill. In him Mrs. Sanger, wife of the weak cottage supervisor, takes a strange and unnatural interest...
...says Locket. "Hell," says Red. "We could float all the way to California!" But they float nowhere. Frightened farm boys shoot Locket. Red is brought back to the institution, prepared for transfer to the penitentiary. "Did Robert have a good word for me before he died?" asks plaintive Mrs. Sanger. "Naw!" says Red. "He died hatin' everybody like a man with any guts should." He hesitates, just before being taken away. "He did have a good word to say for you," hard-boiled Red finally admits. Albert Bein, author of this vital, brilliantly cast play, is no stranger...