Word: control
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Franklin Roosevelt vetoed the Logan-Walter bill in scorching words. Reasons: it would hamper national defense, flood the courts with unnecessary litigation, subject all administrative action to control of the judiciary, produce only delay, chaos, paralysis. He concluded: "Today, in sustaining American ideals of justice, an ounce of action is worth more than a pound of argument...
Last week in Tokyo the Government went further. Laws were passed for total control of foreign trade, news reports, daily necessities, prices and uses of farmland...
Labor groaned at his election, called him a "tool of the power trust." More important, Montreal suspected that Mayor Raynault was a political stalking horse for Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, Quebec boss of the conservatives. Duplessis, no friend of Great Britain, lost his provincial premiership and control of the Legislature in the first flush of Canada's war enthusiasm a year ago, but is struggling for a comeback. He represents a great body of French Canadians who are getting almost as wary of World War II as they were of World War I (when there were ugly antidraft riots...
...least 2,500 years, man has tried to control the sex of his offspring. In 1932, Dr. Felix Unterberger of Konigsberg, Germany pointed out that semen is normally slightly alkaline, and the female vaginal tract acid. In some marriages, he said, an unusually alkaline semen produces a preponderance of boys, a strongly acid vaginal tract a majority of girls. Sex of children should be controlled, then, by adjusting the acid balance of the vagina. After some animal experiments, Dr. Unterberger tried the method on humans, claimed to have "determined" the birth of 74 boys. His method: mild vaginal douches...
...find it hard to take the baking soda seriously. Fortnight ago, Captain Patterson hailed a young couple in The Bronx, Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Hamton, who tried lactic acid and baking soda douches, and got what they ordered: first a girl, then a boy. The Daily News's Sex Control Editor" was forthwith deluged with letters and phone calls, answered cautiously that he could give no specific instructions for human beings. Captain Patterson couldn't be sure that the Hamtons hadn't been plain lucky...