Word: widespread
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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...
Because I would not have you think that I share in the general impression, due to widespread newspaper stories, that Harvard is trying anything particularly important toward educational reform, in this her house plan, or that I have been engaged in any misrepresentation, as might be inferred, I ask the courtesy of your columns for this note. Bernard Iddings Bell. Warden and Dean. St. Stephen's College. Columbia University...
...letter in today's CRIMSON advocating more information on the proposed Memorial Chapel is indicative of a positive and widespread concern in the undergraduate body regarding this subject. As is suggested, the House Plan has in all probability prevented the completion of the fund for the building, but this does not exclude this subject from discussion. To the contrary, in view of the fact that no definite action has been taken, the present is the time when consideration would, be most valuable merely because it could affect the plans in their embryo state...
...entire Cora Exchange capitalization at a point far above its market value. Therefore National City stockholders refused to ratify the merger, and plop!?back went National City to a size well below London's great Midland Bank. This unfortunate development was followed by many wild rumors, so widespread as to call forth from Mr. Mitchell a denial that he contemplated resignation or that his directors were at odds with him. Rumors had been based partly on the suspicion of a difference of opinion concerning the calling of loans by National City branches...
...That widespread distributions of stock to employes have made hundreds of thousands unduly "stock-conscious...