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...urge to procreate, with such recent results as the foregoing, today provides relief administrators throughout the U. S. with one of their toughest and most ticklish problems. Twenty-two million people are on the dole in one form or another. They cost State and Federal Governments $180.000.000 a month. And they are producing a quarter of a million children a year. Relief administrators want to use scientific birth control to constrain that impoverished sixth of the population but have done nothing openly for fear of the Roman Catholic Church...
...hours the Chief Regent tried to find a statesman who could swing this ticklish job. He failed last week and was finally obliged to call back smouldering Uzunovitch. As Premier, Uzunovitch retained pro-French Foreign Minister Bogoljub Jeftitch and acquired a notable War Minister, General Pera Zivkovitch who was Dictator of Jugoslavia from...
...nays than yeas. The National Industrial Conference Board, a fact-finding eye of Big Business, quizzed all 12,076 editors of U. S. newspapers and farm journals. Each editor was asked to disregard his personal opinions, report his community's sentiment. More than 5,000 responded to this ticklish task. The editors shied in droves from abstract spectres of change. Does your community, asked the Board, favor the principle of government competition with private business? No!-by 27-to-1. The Board tried a new tack. Does your community favor government competition with the transportation business? One editor...
...Last month the League of Nations took U. S. S. R. into its fold of respectability (TIME, Oct. 1). Straightway King Gustaf, by no complicated chain of associations, thought of the Aland Islands. The Aland Archipelago in the elbow of the Baltic Sea separating Sweden and Finland is the ticklish spot in Sweden's naval strategy. Overlooking the harbor of Stockholm, the Alands are some 300 sandy, stony little islands and one big one. They are full of Swedes but, after 600 years of being passed around among Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Russia, they now belong to Finland. They...
...favor of the New Deal: Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Brandeis. Stone, Roberts, Cardozo against dissenting Justices Sutherland, Butler, McReynolds, Van Devanter. But thoughtful conservatives point out that those cases did not involve Federal legislation and that since the laws in question were passed by Legislatures, the additionally ticklish question of State rights was to be considered. Furthermore, the legislation under scrutiny was of an emergency nature. The court may balk when the time comes to pass on the more permanent legislation New Dealers want graven in the statute books...