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Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the use of contraceptives spread, although their illegal status gave birth to such nervously silly euphemisms as "uppity-cuppity" (for diaphragm) and it was considered boldly wicked to admit using them. All the while, Margaret Sanger fought futilely for a federal "Doctors' Bill" that would open the mails to birth control information and devices. Victory came by a more roundabout route. She had ordered a new Japanese pessary sent to an associate, Dr. Hannah Stone, and it was seized by U.S. Customs. In U.S. v. One Package, U.S. District Court Judge Grover Moscowitz dismissed...
...feel it has become necessary for me to speak out." The matter is one that is on the minds of a great many Americans, from housewives to investment bankers to the President of the U.S. himself: the tightest money the U.S. has seen since the Harding Administration in the 1920s. "We will bring on a precipitous deflation if we persist in high interest practices," Truman said. "The result could be a serious depression...
...Whampoa, he changed his name from Yu-Yung (Fostering Demeanor) to Piao (Tiger Cat). With that, he sprang into the field, and by the late 1920s, he was a regimental commander for the puritanical Communist General Chu Teh, whose political officer was a plump, moonfaced youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order...
...Greying, distinguished Norman Norell, 66, is today the dean of U.S. designers. As an apprentice, he designed costumes for Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. Today his Manhattan collections still retain much of the sleek, stark, flamboyant yet functional modernity that was characteristic of the late 1920s and early 1930s-and remain equally timely in the 1960s. Norell pioneered culottes and fitted jackets with pleated skirts several seasons ago, showed the now universal pants suit in 1964. His most famous dress is undoubtedly the basic, columnar, $3,000 sequined full-length sheath that he has been making, with minor variations, since...
...financial editor of the Dallas Morning News in the 1920s and 1930s-and later-I watched Merrill Lynch grow from a few docile dogies and mavericks in the small corral and then saw them emerge as the thundering herd. They are today a great aggregation and well deserve the spread TIME gave them...