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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refusal to let the Trans-Canada Highway go through Quebec, his refusal to allow Quebec universities to accept sorely needed federal grants, made much sense in French Canada. Quebec, over the eventful 200 years since England's Wolfe beat France's Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, has kept its identity, even prospered as a French enclave in the continent of les Anglais and the Yankees. A major reason was just this sort of cohesive orneriness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Le Chef Is Dead | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...president of the nation's most prestigious university. Harvard's Nathan Pusey-Abraham Lincoln High School, Council Bluffs, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: PUBLIC SCHOOL PRODUCTS | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...April 5, 1861 a White House clerk carefully penned a letter for the signature of the new President of the U.S., Abraham Lincoln. Addressed to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, it requested that "on today, and on the first of each month, please send me a Warrant for the amount of my salary . . ." Placed on public view for the first time at week's end, the document bears witness anew to the honesty of Honest Abe. Inaugurated on March 4, 1861, Lincoln decided that his pay ($25,000 a year) should not have begun until the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Monday, Dean Francis Keppel announced the appointment of two Assistant Professors in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Arthur S. Bolster Jr., a teacher of history at Pelham High School, is the author of "Discipline of Advancing Truth: The Life of James Freeman Clarke." Abraham S. Fischler is presently teaching at Columbia University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deans Bundy, Keppel Appoint Five Men To Faculty Posts | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Abraham Stone, 68, gently persuasive, Russian-born birth-control advocate, who offered premarital counseling to thousands, advised as many others whose marriages were in trouble, by invitation toured India and Russia to lecture on contraceptives, collaborated on books (A Marriage Manual, Planned Parenthood) that became staples of marital advice; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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