Word: sangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, home from a world tour, arrived the nation's No. 1 birth controller, Mrs. Margaret Sanger, with much to say to the Press. In India, Mrs. Sanger said she obtained indorsements from 45 medical associations, founded 50 birth control centres, spoke at 100-odd meetings and "found no opposition in India from any religious group. . . . Everybody accepted the idea that something must be done to halt the increase in population and the inevitable death of women and children...
...Sanger spent three days with that half-forgotten little holy man, the Mahatma Gandhi.* He, said she, believes "that women should control the whole question of family-how many children and when. He went me one better on that score: I believe that men should say how many children and the women should say when. After all, the fathers have to support the children." But Mrs. Sanger did not bring away St. Gandhi's complete indorsement of her work. Explained she: "He just didn't know much about the subject...
...Columbus, Ohio, the 32nd quadrennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church toyed gingerly with birth control. Placed before the 600-odd Methodist delegates was a memorial supported by Mrs. Sanger's National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control and signed by three Methodist educators, one Manhattan minister, numerous church board members and trustees of the Women's Home Missionary Society. The memorial cited "indorsements"' of birth control by Methodist regional conferences, by other Protestant and Jewish bodies. It urged that Methodism, indorse "the principles of birth control legislation now pending in Congress." Sent to a committee...
...team were Arthur Cabot, later a leading surgeon and member of the Harvard Corporation; Robert Grant, later the beloved Judge Grant; Henry Grant, his brother; Charlie Prince, the banker; Henry Morse; William O. Sanger, Assistant Secretary of War under Teddy Roosevelt; George Wigglesworth, later member of the board of Overseers and President of the Alumni Association; W. R. Tyler, later Head Master of Adams Academy; and many others who proved to be quite as good citizens as those who were decrying football...
Same day, their mission completed, the Duke and the Donor sailed off in company with the Trophy for Europe. As the Normandie steamed down the harbor, no publicity-minded maiden swung in the rigging. But, holding forth in the saloon was Margaret Sanger, on her way to India to spread her gospel of Birth Control...