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...himself, and whether the bill can muster a majority in the Committee and be reported out is uncertain. But it is certain to be introduced by Senator Cummins and to precipitate a nation-wide debate. Politically, of course, many legislators are afraid of the bill, fearing the effect on backward constituencies. The consistent opposition of the Roman Catholic Church to the birth control movement is well known...
...Union this afternoon as soon after 2 o'clock as the game begins and all Union members and their guests will be admitted to hear the game reports. At one end of the living room will be placed a gridiron board, and a football will be moved forward or backward on the field as each play is reported...
...records thus obtained make the Library of the Graduate School of Business Administration unusually rich in the original sources of the history of New England security prices. But not content with accumulating the recording the current history of his time, Mr. Martin delved backward into sources which were then open to him, and recorded in several published volumes the financial history of Boston for a period of one hundred years prior to 1898. He covered the interesting "Bank Panic" of 1837, the second panic of 1857, the depressed times of the rebellion, and the later panics...
...Wilhelm II. "At Berlin we dined one night with the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia. The ex-Emperor of Germany was about 18 months old, and his father himself fetched him down after dinner to show him to Mamma (Lady Westmoreland). He was a pretty little fellow, although backward in walking, and with his arm limp and helpless; but they were very proud...
...Disease will be abolished throughout even backward nations within the 20th Century, if the world is prepared to tolerate enough state interference in private life...