Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rejoins the rest of the civilized world in prohibiting abortion, except where necessary to preserve the life of the prospective mother, or in extreme cases of venereal disease. Reason: Soviet gynecologists have convinced the Kremlin that 16 years of easy abortion on a nation-wide scale have impaired the health of hundreds of thousands of Russian women, however much it achieved in realizing Communist ideals of equality of the sexes and a single Soviet standard of morality...
...months, crossing and recrossing his path, has gone Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, No. 1 Christian of Japan. Nearly turned away from the U. S. by Federal immigration authorities in California because his eyes are infected with trachoma (TIME, Dec. 30), this soft-faced, gold-toothed Japanese scrupulously obeyed special Public Health Service regulations laid down for his evangelistic tour. He traveled with a doctor, declined to shake hands with anyone, never entered a private home, made sure that linen and table utensils were sterilized after he used them. Last week Kagawa was in good health after a grueling itinerary during which...
...minds, the 10,000 nurses, a collection of tidy women in printed dresses and floppy hats, scattered to conferences and lectures to face the hard, professional problems which the American Nurses' Association (120,000 members), National League of Nursing Education (4,100 members) and National Organization for Public Health Nursing (7,500 members) are trying to solve...
...explanation for his recent resignations from the boards of General Electric, New York Central and Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. Nor was any explanation given last week when he left two other traditional Baker seats, U. S. Steel and Pullman. Reports were that Mr. Baker was in poor health. On his shoulders still rest directorships in General Motors Corp., Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, Provident Loan Society, American Museum of Natural History, New York Public Library. Like his father before him, Banker Baker would probably let only Death sever his connection with American Telephone & Telegraph...
...Imprisoned and exiled by the Tsar on Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905), he returned in 1914, served as a private in the War. He supported the moderate Kerensky regime, thunderously opposed the Bolsheviki, reluctantly accepted a Government post from Nikolai Lenin which he abandoned shortly to nurse his failing health in Capri. Induced to return in 1928, he was feted as the literary patriarch of the Revolution...