Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suppose Mr. & Mrs. Kourim follow Judge Ewing's advice; then they will be breaking the birth control law of Ohio, which states that no person shall sell, exhibit, give information about or use any contraceptive. A Federal law and the various laws of other states are almost as stringent. In New York State, however, there are two birth control clinics which may give advice when essential to a wife's health or to save life...
...every state hundreds of physicians, many of them reputable, do give birth control information; and almost every drug store in the land does sell contraceptives...
...important principals in the [Kourim] case. When this couple ran away at their age it was a gay adventure. . . . When the first child was one year old some court should have given them a lesson in birth control. . . . Their trouble is a direct reflection on the law of this state. The courts are forbidden to give out birth control information, the very thing that would have saved this couple from this situation...
...returning to the U. S. for a short visit. They leave in charge of the Embassy in Madrid, quietly renowned Counselor Sheldon Whitehouse. He prepared for diplomacy as private secretary to the late Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, graduated to be Chief of the Near Eastern Division of the State Department, is suave, astute...
...pomp of a meeting of the Privy Council might overtax his weakened heart. The patient remained adamant. Therefore the text of a suitable Order in Council was speedily drafted, members of the Privy Council assembled in the Audience Chamber adjoining His Majesty's bedroom, and the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Sir William Joynson-Hicks took up his stance in the doorway, facing the Royal bed. Thus the King-Emperor "sat" or rather lay as Chairman of the Privy Council with as little excitement as possible. Slightly rolling over in bed George V listened while Sir William read...