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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To Christians, "Zion" means a holy city not of this world. To Jews, Zion connotes a temporal though still only potential refuge. Political Zionism, begun by Theodor Herzl in 1896, not only roused the Jewish national consciousness but made the world increasingly aware that Jews, citizens of every country, had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zionfor All? | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Birth Control as an open, organized movement instead of a furtive, unmentionable but widespread practice appeared again last week when the American Birth Control League held, in Manhattan, its first general conference in five years. The calibre of the sponsors suggested a changing social attitude-the wife of Morgan Partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Voluntary Parenthood | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Snugly tidied for the winter last week were the fishing villages along the Burin peninsula, which projects southward from southern Newfoundland. Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins. Warehouses held stacks of dried and salted codfish, the season's catch, ready to be shipped for profit-to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Earthquake Aftermath | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

President of the new body and thus titularly the most eminent man in Canadian medicine is Lieut. Colonel Dr. Jonathan Campbell Meakins, 47, director of the Department of Medicine at McGill University. He was born at serene Hamilton, Ont., near Toronto and Buffalo. studied medicine at McGill, took advanced instruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Royal Canadian College | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Clifford Wittingham Beers and his associates in the great Mental Hygiene movement (TIME, Nov. 25) tacked to a new educational course last week. The past 20 years they have been spreading a general lesson?protect mental health and treat the mentally ill humanely, intelligently. In the future they will teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erratum | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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