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When the War began she came to the U. S. to be Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont's suffraget aid. While doing that she learned of Margaret Sanger's trouble with the police over birth control advocacy. Kitty Marion offered to busk the promising but innocuous Birth Control Review at Manhattan's busiest corners. She has been doing that for the past 13 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control Busker | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

Sympathetic friends of Colonel Kook recalled his strange, inspired career. Born in Northern Russia his piety felt the tug of Holy Jerusalem. But stronger was the twinge of local duty, and he reluctantly became Rabbi of Busk, Russia. Some 20 years ago, however, he was appointed Rabbi of Jaffa, and hastened happily to Palestine. Today all Jewry regards Colone1 Kook as a sort of philosopher-saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Holy of Holies | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...LUCY T. BUSK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1927 | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...most venerable figure in contemporary Judaism. Born in northern Russia, his early ambition was to go someday to Palestine. For this purpose he studied Hebrew clandestinely. Twenty years ago he was offered the Rabbinate of Jaffa, and, giving up a well-paying position as rabbi of Busk, Russia, he went. Today the Jewish world regards him as its philosopher-saint. His landing on American soil was greeted by 300 rabbis and thousands of aged patriarchs, standing in the windy cold. Why did he come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somehow Colonel | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

...Detach. Co. M Ingraham, M. B. " " M Wister, L. C. " " M Graydon, B. " " M Lent, J. M. " " M Kant, L. S. " " M Stover, R. M. " " M Merriam, A. B. " " M Watson, R. C. " " M Worcester, T. " " M Lawlor, E. L. " " M Trenham, J. F. " " M Hammond, W. S. " " M Busk, F. W. " " M Paul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reserve Officers' Training Corps | 6/5/1917 | See Source »

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