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James Noah Henry Slee, president of Three-in-One Oil Co., gives a biblical tithe of his income to the American Birth Control League, great controvert of the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply. His interest in the League is threefold. He is by hobby a sociologist, by avocation treasurer of the League, by choice husband (since 1922) of Margaret Sanger, the League's founder (in 1921). Between 1921 and 1926 his givings totaled $56,141, which he carefully deducted from his taxable income, because the American Birth Control League exists for "charitable, scientific and educational purposes...
...activities of this new segment of psychological discipline are threefold: 1. instruction in psychopathology by means of lectures, discussions and demonstrations: 2. systematic psychological investigations upon volunteer subjects, most of whom are members of the class; and 3. investigation and treatment of selected cases of the psychoneuroses. At present psychopathology as a science vibrates uncertainly between two extreme, points; concepts based upon the brilliant but unsubstantiated intuitions of certain eminent psycho-analysts and the results of a mass of unenlightened objective tests assiduouly performed by more conscientious but less inspired workers. The illumination that comes from the interplay of imagination...
Said Philanthropist Adler: "In giving the planetarium to Chicago, I have a threefold conception. . . . The third is to emphasize that all mankind, rich and poor, powerful and weak, as well as all nations, here and abroad, constitute part of one universe, and that under the great celestial firmament there is no division or cleavage, but rather interdependence and unity...
...announcement that with Langdell Hall enlarged threefold, there would be no increase in enrolment, indicates some of the difficulties of cramped quarters Dean Pound and his associates must have undergone...
Last week, by an international financial coup whose benefits to her will be threefold, France emerged from her dilemma with $75,000,000 loaned to her by the Swedish Match Co., the largest advance ever made to a Government by a corporate enterprise of this kind. France must pay but 5% to the Swedish Match Co. for the money. She saved $1,850,000 in annual interest; she rids herself of the old $70,000,000 issue, a nuisance: (with the new funds it may be called and paid for next March 15); and she obviates possible delicate dickering with...