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...years Kurdistan, a district which overlaps the present boundaries of eastern Turkey, Persia and Irak, has been rising in revolt against its Turkish conquerors. Kurdish hopes for a free state were raised at the beginning of the Paris Peace Conference only to be dashed at its close. Last important Kurd uprising...
Turkish leaders found one important difference between the present and other Kurd revolts. Kurds in the present uprising had money, modern arms. Other tribes not usually embroiled in the periodic Kurdish strivings for liberty were fighting against the Turks too. While Turkish military commanders proceeded with their tried and true formula in these affairs- burning villages, ruthlessly exterminating men, women and children-Turkish diplomats accused Persia of backing and even fomenting the Kurds. Persia swore innocence, and last week the Turkish officials made more interesting accusations. The real cause of the trouble near Ararat, they said, was not the Kurds...
...Wiley's last public appearance was at the request of his old friend Dr. Henry Kurd Rusby of Columbia University.* He testified in confirmation of a technical point in Dr. Rusby's charges that the pure drug laws are not now being properly enforced (TIME, June 16, and p. 34). That day in the committee room he was heard to say: "I'd just as soon draw my last breath right here...
...affliction of the food, drug & insecticide administration of the Department of Agriculture, the "scandal" of ergot, came up again last week. Walter Gilbert Campbell, director of the department's regulatory work took it before the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Forestry. He wished to clear the administration of Dr. Henry Kurd Rusby's long repeated charges that it was willfully permitting the importation of rotten ergot, fluid extract of which (says Dr. Rusby) is killing large numbers of women in childbirth (TIME, April...
Maureen Orcutt, Helen Hicks, Bernice Wall and Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd have tentatively accepted Glenna Collett's invitation to accompany her, as captain, to England next summer to play in the first women's international golf matches...