Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charitably inclined towards men of this class. So if Abbott will come over to my ranch I will make him a gift of a bunch of pigs that he can show at the coming autumn fairs, or even the Century of Progress, and this will produce in him a mental shift and give him so much care he will never allow that unruly tongue of his to betray ignorance. This may be freakish, but it goes. JENNIE MINERVA MILLS CONRAD Conrad Ranch Conrad...
Challenge Sirs: A feeling of mental asphyxiation engulfed me when I had analyzed the communication published at the head of TIME'S "Letters" column, issue May 22. As the signer is a close kin of mine I am overcome with a sense of responsibility. How such an undiplomatic note crept by the family censor I cannot comprehend, but it is not for me to offer excuses. To Secretary of Treasury Woodin, Colonel Louis McHenry Howe and TIME'S artist, who were mentioned in the same passage with "Australian Bushman" and "Bloodhound," humblest apologies. The distinguished Treasury head, Colonel...
Sterilizers Punished A Michigan jury decided last week that although it may be legal to sterilize a mental incompetent, the deed is not necessarily impunible. The decision warned judges, prosecutors, sociologists and doctors in the 27 States which permit sterilization to watch their...
...divorce from her third husband, Arthur James Ogle in Juarez, Mex. Divorced. Elliott Roosevelt, 22, the President's second son; by Elizabeth Browning Donner Roosevelt, 21; in Minden, Nev. Elliott, who had established residence at Lake Tahoe, followed a pre-arranged program by filing suit first, charging "extreme mental cruelty" which caused him "great mental agony and suffering." Then from Philadelphia Elizabeth Roosevelt dispatched by airmail a cross-suit, under which the decree was granted her after a 15-min. hearing behind closed doors. Free, Elliott announced he would celebrate by "taking in the World's Fair," engaged...
...Medalie: Do you regard that as a sign of mental deterioration...