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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, England, seems to believe that Anglican sensibilities should be shaken well at regular intervals. Last week, speaking before the Birmingham Rotary Club, he set off another of his Episcopal cannon crackers. Sterilization of "the unfit" and the killing of "defective" babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Crisis | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

At the Southern Great Plains Experimental Range at Woodward, Okla., state and federal experimenters found that airplane-sprayed 2,4-D, the chemical that kills "broad-leaved" plants while leaving grasses unharmed, did a fine job of killing sagebrush. The treatment costs a little more than $2 an acre and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: DDT Down, 2,4-D Up | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Not since the New York Daily News ghoulishly sneaked a picture of Murderess Ruth Snyder*dying in Sing Sing's electric chair, in 1928, had such a death-house hullabaloo stirred the U.S. press. Chicago's lusty, raucous Herald-American had started it by running a Page One...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death-House Hullabaloo | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

In rural political killing and burning, which frightened the other party's members from voting, Conservatives gained a bloody advantage. Liberals raged that the police fought for the Conservatives. By last week, counting their dead in the thousands, Liberal leaders concluded that they had no chance of a fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Revolution of the Right | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

There was hardly anybody who did not know somebody who had made a killing in the market. And last week, exactly 20 years after the era of wonderful nonsense suddenly collapsed, there was hardly anybody in Wall Street old enough to remember, who did not shiver a bit at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a World | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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