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...BELL Cedar Rapids, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Charley Turquoise and the Short Man's Grandson were making the ritualistic sand painting that forms the climax of the five-day Navajo Thunder Chant. The painting should have been made in a hogan, or House of Song, built of cedar logs and mud, with its entrance facing east. The Museum of Modern Art couldn't supply a hogan, but Charley and the Short Man's Grandson were always careful to enter their sand painting from the east. Because the Thunder Chant's sand-painting medicine was strong medicine, and any pictures of it might make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Charley and the Grandson | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...fascinated spectators learned all this and many another bit of Biblical botany at the annual International Flower Show in Manhattan last week, where the most popular single exhibit was the New York Botanical Garden's show of some 75 plants mentioned in the Bible-everything from a young cedar of Lebanon to the sort of bulrushes (papyrus plants) among which the infant Moses was hidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Biblical Botany | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Leach condemed those who had faith in our embroyo defense program, our air force still on order, and "the gentleman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who calls himself a 'two-fisted isolationist'." Leach had interrogated Verne Marshall on the New England Town Meeting of the Air last week, when the latter remarked, "Boy, what a question-asker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEACH BLASTS LINDBERGHS, MARSHALL | 1/22/1941 | See Source »

...Marshall resigned last week as editor of the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette to devote his time to the No Foreign War Committee, the doctor wired: "We now have your organization properly placed." Its place, the doctor said, was alongside "the salesmen of Social Justice, Christian Mobilizers, Bundists. . . . Your organization is no such bona fide keep-us-out-of-war movement as are the Quakers and similar high-minded and loyal American groups." Concluded the doctor, brushing his hands off: "It is fortunate for our country that your No Foreign War Committee has been exposed before it gathered too much strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Something Burning | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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