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Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Elwin Charles "Preacher" Roe (February 26, 1916 – November 9, 2008) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals (1938), Pittsburgh Pirates (1944–47), and Brooklyn Dodgers (1948–54).
The book is a biographical account of Norma McCorvey, known as "Jane Roe" in the 1973 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade . The Roe case, which established a woman's constitutional right to an abortion , is one of the most controversial opinions in American jurisprudence . [ 1 ]
There were 2,042 abortion providers in the United States in 1995. By 2017, that number had fallen to 808. A post-Roe 'catastrophe' looms for abortion providers [Video]
Carhart, 530 U.S. 914 (2000), on the 40th anniversary of the Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), she criticized the decision in Roe as terminating a nascent democratic movement to liberalize abortion laws which might have built a more durable consensus in support of abortion rights. [108] Ginsburg was in the minority for Gonzales v.
Roe was born in Danbury, Connecticut and attended Wesleyan University. [1] He moved to Florida in the 1920s, where he was involved in the advertising business and was accused of check forgery in 1921. [2]
Edward Payson Roe was born in the village of Moodna, now part of New Windsor, New York.He studied at Williams College and at Auburn Theological Seminary.In 1862 he became chaplain of the Second New York Cavalry, U.S.V., and in 1864 chaplain of Hampton Hospital, in Virginia.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...