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...United States Army for "selfless service to the United States" and, among other things, implementation of the Marshall Plan; Polaroid Corp. President Edwin H. Land, 57, named to receive the Case Institute of Technology's $5,000 Michelson Award; Lyndon Johnson, named to receive the first Margaret Sanger Award in World Leadership of the Planned Parenthood Federation for "contributions to world understanding of population planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 21, 1966 | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...woman!" she stormed at the lady cop who arrested her. "You're a traitress to your sex." Spurning the paddy wagon, Margaret Sanger marched the mile to Raymond Street jail, was later convicted of disseminating birth control information and imprisoned for 30 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Every Child a Wanted Child | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...fell in love with Sexologist Havelock Ellis, but Ellis was already married. In 1922, she married 3-In-One Oil Company Owner J. Noah H. Slee, after planking down a platform of specific demands to assure her independence: she would continue to call herself Margaret Sanger, she and Slee would occupy separate apartments in the same house, they would even telephone each other to arrange such trifles as having dinner together. Not much of a marriage by conventional standards, but it held firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Every Child a Wanted Child | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the use of contraceptives spread, although their illegal status gave birth to such nervously silly euphemisms as "uppity-cuppity" (for diaphragm) and it was considered boldly wicked to admit using them. All the while, Margaret Sanger fought futilely for a federal "Doctors' Bill" that would open the mails to birth control information and devices. Victory came by a more roundabout route. She had ordered a new Japanese pessary sent to an associate, Dr. Hannah Stone, and it was seized by U.S. Customs. In U.S. v. One Package, U.S. District Court Judge Grover Moscowitz dismissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Every Child a Wanted Child | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...Margaret Sanger started on a personal crusade to secure the freedom of the individual woman, whom she characterized as "a brood animal for the masculine civilizations of the world." But what she started on an individual level has since been heralded by demographers as one way of coping with the world's staggering population problem. She recognized this early. And, as a result of her efforts, the personal and planetary have been fused. Freely using contraceptive devices, women in India, Africa or the U.S. are staving off world-population pressures-while at the same time they enjoy the personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Every Child a Wanted Child | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

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