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...action of the American Unitarian Association in adopting a resolution to promote the birth control movement deserves nothing but commendation. The finger of stigma pointed by modernists at petrified Orthodexy has for once received sufficient proof to the contrary. Any technical discussion of the pros and cons regarding birth control properly belongs to the physician. The qualification to be introduced is only that it should be extended to the general practitioner as well as the highly specialized medicinal student of research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY | 5/22/1930 | See Source »

...Crown to incarcerate under "personal restraint'' in India, "anyone against whom there may not be sufficient grounds for institution of judicial proceedings, or against whom such proceedings might not be adapted to the nature of the case." Foreign statesmen could but humble themselves again at this fresh proof of the British "genius for government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Saintnapping | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...platoons of the second battalion of the 18th Royal Garswal Rifles at Peshawar recently was "unsatisfactory"-that is, these Hindu troops disobeyed their British commander's order to fire on a Hindu mob. With unrest seething hotter and hotter all over India it was no mean proof of Baron Irwin's iron nerve and fitness for the post of Viceroy that the saintnapping was accomplished with such masterly finesse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Saintnapping | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...York is not only an individual honor for those men chosen but also a distinction for the society. The Harvard society is little more than a year old and the mere fact that its founders--three of the men elected--have won for their organization national recognition is proof that their work in the field of modern art has been of a high standard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REWARD | 5/1/1930 | See Source »

...existence of this patent in itself should convey to you absolute proof as to who originated the idea and the process, but aside from that it is well known throughout the food industry that Mr. Fred Pabst first conceived this idea and worked it out in his own laboratories in Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1930 | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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