Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birth Control as an open, organized movement instead of a furtive, unmentionable but widespread practice appeared again last week when the American Birth Control League held, in Manhattan, its first general conference in five years. The calibre of the sponsors suggested a changing social attitude-the wife of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament, the wife of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Flagler, Sherwood Eddy, Norman Thomas, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Harry Emerson Fosdick. . . . The conferees deplored the fact that there are only 29 centres in the U. S. where birth control information...
...Members of the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters were affronted at their convention in Pittsburgh last week when Manhattan's Dr. James F. Cooper urged them to "have children by choice, not by chance." fMrs. Sanger, Chairman of the Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, was busy at Columbus, Ohio, last week, arguing for permissive Ohio laws, at least for the canceling of inhibitive laws...
Snugly tidied for the winter last week were the fishing villages along the Burin peninsula, which projects southward from southern Newfoundland. Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins. Warehouses held stacks of dried and salted codfish, the season's catch, ready to be shipped for profit-to buy calico, yarn, sweaters, boots. Men prophesied a serene winter. Then the fish-giving sea howled unwontedly. A great swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed...
Canada has a few fess than 10,000 doctors. Last week 60 of them, professors in one or another of the nine leading medical schools of the Dominion, met at Ottawa and formally organized a Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada. The other seven dozen medical professors in the schools are to become Charter Fellows ipso facto, according to the enabling law passed by the Canadian Parliament last year...
Clifford Wittingham Beers and his associates in the great Mental Hygiene movement (TIME, Nov. 25) tacked to a new educational course last week. The past 20 years they have been spreading a general lesson?protect mental health and treat the mentally ill humanely, intelligently. In the future they will teach specifically how to prevent mental and nervous troubles, how to treat and cure developed cases. TIME'S reference to what Yale's President James Rowland Angell said at the mental hygiene dinner last fortnight gave an erroneous impression. Yale was not the first school to have a staff psychiatrist...