Word: whitton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard backstroke: Won by Stack (Yale); second, Ratkiewick (Yalt); third, Wineman (Williams); fourth, Lechner (Navy); fifth, Merrow (Bowdoin); sixth, Whitton (Springfield). Winning time--1:32. (new EISL record...
Hill's business is booming. There were 650 adoptions in the province last year. According to Hill, everybody concerned is happy-the natural parents (in illegitimacy cases), the foster parents and the children. Dr. Whitton called Alberta's adoption system "unhappily casual." In particular she struck at Uncle Charlie's "export traffic in Alberta babies," reported that ten percent of all adopted Alberta babies last year went to U.S. applicants, many of whom arranged the whole thing by mail. Dr. Whitton suspected that some babies had "again changed hands . . . and for a consideration" in the U.S. adoption...
...case, wrote Dr. Whitton: "If these babies are suitable for adoption, they are a valuable national asset and the whole Alberta policy is puzzling; if they are not suitable for placement, it is a dastardly thing to send them to foster homes in a friendly neighboring country." Her suggested remedy: recasting of Alberta's Child Welfare Act to reduce the "unjustifiable powers" of province officials...
With Dignity. In Edmonton, Health Minister Cross was not talking. One day before the Whitton summary was released, his government set up a three-man commission headed by Chief Justice William Robinson Howson to conduct a "full investigation" into the policies of the Child Welfare Branch of the Ministry. Minister Cross said he would await the findings of the commission...
Charlotte Whitton thinks the investigating committee may do some good. "At least," said she, "the matter will be dealt with in dignity and justice." But neither Charlotte Whitton nor the Daughters of the Empire will rest the case there. They are planning indignation meetings all over Alberta...