Word: verdon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jammed aboard the U. S. liner President Harding when she cleared from Le Verdon, near Bordeaux, France on Oct.11 were 597 passengers (157 more than her capacity), 330 of them U. S. citizens. West of Ireland, Captain James E. Roberts turned to rescue the French tanker W. Emile Miguet, which radioed that it had been attacked by a submarine. On his way to her rescue he picked up 36 members of the crew of the British freighter Heronspool, which had also been torpedoed. He finally found the Miguet in flames, could see no sign of the crew, and resumed...
...Stopes married rich Humphrey Verdon Roe, pioneer designer of airplanes, who finances her birth control propaganda in England...
...Munro Woolsey of Manhattan decided last month. Thereupon Putnam's rushed the printing and, last week, published Marie Carmichael Stopes's Married Love- the first of her eight monographs on sex activity. Professionally she is a palaeobotanist and an authority on coal. In 1918 she married Humphrey Verdon Roe, who with his brother Sir Alliott Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then she has sold 700,000 copies in England alone. Copies heretofore...