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Last week, when the President got off his train at Salem, he went down to a scrubbed-up coal wharf at which his yacht Potomac had tied up. There, Anne and her pretty 18-year-old sister Sally went aboard with John to pose for more photographs. Father Roosevelt had the ship anchor for the day off the Nahant peninsula. That evening the wedding party dined aboard, later went ashore for more gaiety than the Presidential yacht could offer...
...upholding the verdict in the "Salem birth control case," the Massachusetts Supreme Court yesterday threw an effective obstacle in the path of social progress. Basing its brief on a fact of dubious relevancy--"that the moral and social wrongs arising from the prevention of conception appeared . . . threatening in 1879"--the Court showed a deliberate unwillingness to interpret the law in the light of modern needs. The decision was a great deal more concerned with the "sexual immorality" it hoped to prevent, than with the appalling human misery it was perpetuating. Until knowledge long in possession of the rich is made...
John F. Brooks of Salem, from Loomis and Mower Hall, Chairman of the Red Book Committee, Union Committee...
Charles P. Berger of Jackson, Michigan and Weld Hall; Arthur S. Bosworth, Jr. of Cape Elizabeth, Maine and Lionel Hall; John F. Brooks of Salem and Mower Hall; Logan Bullitt of Portland, Maine and Stoughton Hall; E. Langdon Burwell of Buffalo and Straus Hall; Sheldon Dietz of Brookline; and Donald A. Donahue of Lawrence and Matthews Hall...
...director of the A. B. C. L. and its sparkplug since Mrs. Margaret Sanger (mother of two) took to the international field, is Mrs. Allison Pierce Moore (mother of three). Mrs. Moore was agitated about the Massachusetts police who raided and closed clinics in Salem last July. That case comes up for appeal this month, and Mrs. Moore opened for the defense by declaring: "The historian of the future may record for 1937-first, great advances from the standpoint of health and eugenics; second, that in Salem, Mass, a backward step was taken, reminding us of the witch burnings...