Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressmen last week foiled Mrs. Margaret Sanger's sixth attempt to get a Federal law passed which will allow doctors to give their patients advice on birth control without running the risk of being jailed and fined. Undepressed, plump Mrs. Sanger proceeded to hold a party to celebrate the 21 years of Birth Control & Sanger history. Helping her were powerful names, among them: Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Mrs. Harold L. Ickes and Mrs. Frederick A. Delano, the President's aunt. Five hundred sponsors of the dinner included Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick...
...Sanger's father, Michael Hennessy Higgins, was an easygoing, loquacious, free-thinking carver of tombstone saints at Corning, N. Y. He died at 80. Her mother was a tight, aggressive little body who bore eleven children and died at 48. Margaret Higgins, sixth child, was born in 1883, developed tuberculosis from which she recovered only after bearing three children to William Sanger, an architect whom she married in 1900 and divorced in 1921. Now he practices architecture in Albany, N. Y. Of the children, Peggy, the youngest, died when 4 years old. Stuart, 30, Yale '28, once...
...sixth game of the indoor season will also have A. Townsend Winmill '37, at No. 2 and Captain Tommy Davis at his usual hard-riding back position. This Saturday's game is the last before the trio goes on the road for West Point where it will meet Army for its first game in the intercollegiate series...
...Janeiro, onetime Heavyweight Champion Primo Camera, 264 lb., fought Ervin Klausner, 202. In the sixth round, Fisticuffer Klausner begged his opponent to stop hitting him. The referee awarded the decision to Camera...
...sixth floor of No. 41 Broad Street, Manhattan, one day last week trooped a delegation of newshawks looking for an office door on which was freshly stenciled the name "C. E. Mitchell, Inc." Admitted by a solitary office boy, the reporters found Charles Edwin Mitchell seated behind a small desk, nervously puffing cigarets. In his own words the bankless banker was a "poor fellow going back into business...