Word: exhibitions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rifle. Half the people of the Northwest Territories are Eskimos, and their tribal ways have been difficult to fit to Canada's 20th Century social legislation. Exhibit A is the baby bonus. On Feb. 28, no less than 3,101 Eskimo children were registered for family allowances made available on July 1, 1945. But administration is difficult. In the first place, an Eskimo child has only a temporary name until he is about ten years old. In addition, families are always on the move. The Mounties have tried to solve the problem by giving each child...
...parade should come to a half at some spacious intersection, the music-makers plan to exhibit some of their flashy drillwork a la Soldiers Field, breaking from block formation to a semicircle and striking up a service medley...
...four months he was released through the intercession of the Vatican; in Rome, he reciprocated by modeling the Pope. He spent the rest of the war in Geneva. In ten busy months at the American Academy in Rome last year, he completed most of the works in his new exhibit...
...Nazis and Japs. Can it be that there are those in our own United States who have still not had their fill of suffering, torture and slow death these past few years? ... If there are those who can stand and "laugh" and "cheer" at this unbelievably disgusting exhibit of perversion in one of our states, then we had better take up the cudgels where we left off in Europe...
...Boston, Forever Amber went on trial for obscenity under a new law which permits prosecution of a book rather than a bookseller. Most interesting exhibit: a realistic, life-size photographic cut-out of sexy Authoress Kathleen Winsor. Though the prosecutor thundered, the judge, a man of 65, averred: "The book acts like a soporific rather than an aphrodisiac. While conducive to sleep it is not conducive to a desire to sleep with a member of the opposite sex." His verdict: Not guilty...