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Jews and Christians are on theological principle opposed to any procedure which interrupts pregnancy. Nevertheless Dr. Frederick Joseph Taussig, famed St. Louis gynecologist, author of last week's milestone text, finds that every tribe, nation, people and race from time immemorial has practiced abortion. After careful figuring, he decided that 681,600 abortions occur each year in the U. S., causing some 10,000 maternal deaths. According to Dr. Taussig, much of this mortality is due to secretiveness growing out of laws which declare abortions criminal unless performed to preserve the health or life of the mother...
...Harvard faculty members who signed the statement are Charles J. Bullock, George F. Baker Professor of Economics; J. Franklin Ebersole, professor of Finance; Joseph A. Schumpeter, professor of Economics; Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance; and Frank W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics...
FEBRUARY 19 --Sprague and Taussig uphold Supreme Court Decision in the Gold Clause Case...
...APRIL 10 Taussig resigns from economics department...
Other suggestions advanced were the establishment of periodical lectures in Economics A by recognized authorities on the special fields covered (Professor Taussig on the tariff) at approximately weekly intervals, and a plan to put the lecturer on the spot by subjecting him to a cross examination at the end of the hour, ostensibly to give the cleverest students a chance to trip...