Medicine: Birth Control

James Noah Henry Slee, president of Three-in-One Oil Co., gives a biblical tithe of his income to the American Birth Control League, great controvert of the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply. His interest in the League is threefold. He is by hobby a sociologist, by avocation treasurer of the League, by choice husband (since 1922) of Margaret Sanger, the League's founder (in 1921). Between 1921 and 1926 his givings totaled $56,141, which he carefully deducted from his taxable income, because the American Birth Control...

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