Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yacht-loving Dr. Bourne, who two years ago prepared a weighty report on abortions for the British Medical Association, has long wished to broaden the law so as to allow reputable surgeons to use their own discretion in terminating pregnancies in special cases. A large share of British medical opinion agreed that a test case should be made to bring the law before the courts. Two-and-a-half months ago the perfect test case appeared...
...jury of two women, ten men, Obstetrician Bourne presented his case. The doctor argued: "The law of England cannot be so crazy and cruel. ... It cannot possibly be unlawful to avert the consequences of a felonious trespass on a child. In my opinion as an obstetric surgeon it may have been dangerous for a girl of her age to bear a child. Ninety-nine per cent of my colleagues would be agreeable to an operation such as I performed." Many of Britain's best medical men, including old Baron Horder, Physician in Ordinary to the King, trooped...
...Neville Chamberlain hopes to win over the Mohammedan Turkish Dictatorship to the cause of Democracy is not to be $30,000,000 as at first announced (TIME, July 25) but $80,000,000. It is all to be spent by the Turks for armaments "Made in Britain." Turkish public opinion is being eased gently up to the prospect of a formal military alliance with Britain, and last week persuasive Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras declared with characteristic finesse: Imagine! Here is a country granting us a loan without asking anything in return. Any other country would have demanded...
That every U. S. pressure group has its "publicity director" entrusted with the task of subtly influencing public opinion is a fact known to every sophisticated newspaper reader. Last week the subtle methods of a group of high-priced pressagents did not seem so subtle when illuminated by Senator Robert Marion La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee...
...mostly admen of the questing, high-pressure type with whom Dale Carnegie's courses were popular. Dr. Reilly called the First Annual Straight Thinking Breakfast a "mental showerbath." As the pupils nodded over grapefruit, cereal, ham & eggs, coffee (price: $10), he revealed his formula: "1) Separate facts from opinions and look at the facts from the standpoint of who, what, when and where. 2) Arrive at an intelligent definition of the real problem and do not jump from an opinion to a conclusion without reasoning. 3) Consider carefully all possible solutions of the problem. 4) Accept the solution which...