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...primitive Kentucky murderer, Curt Jett, 55, became a Baptist preacher at Union City, Ky. last week. The incident recalled the fast fading culture of mountainous Kentucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wild Dog into Preacher | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

Birth Control. Secretary Wilbur also got into a fracas, but outside the agenda of the conference. Mrs. Frederick Robertson Jones, president of the American Birth Control League and a conference invitee, wanted the conference to report on birth control. Her efforts (she said) "brought only ridicule and curt replies. . . . Not a single committee was willing to let us put this problem before them." Impatient, she scolded at sociologists: "They are still governed by sentiment and tradition. . . . They refuse to apply biology, even though this science has been concerned with defectives for years. America should not have 10,000,000 defective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Child Welfare | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...Curt, Clear, Complete," so why not substitute Little Slam and Grand Slam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Next day the Commission's deadlock remained unbroken. Chairman Wicker-sham's good humor deserted him. He shouldered his way home through a blockade of newsmen with a curt "nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unborn Blossom | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...curt announcement appeared last week in official Bulgarian newsorgans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Imro & Umo | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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