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...extraordinary energy. She will be 40 in October. She was born and reared on a farm near Winnipeg, Canada. Of her early cultural advantages, she says that her mother "dedicated her to God as Hannah did Samuel; instead of Cinderella and Mother Goose, I went to sleep with Jonah and the Whale and Daniel in the Lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sister's Sorrows | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...Bankers' Manifesto demanding "Empire Free Trade." By the end of last week Mr. Baldwin had heeded the bankers and plumped for E. F. T. again. Meantime his ludicrous middle position was masterfully caricatured by the Conservative Evening Standard's famed David Low, astute New Zealander as a Jonah & Whale story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Again Noah; Again Whale | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Significance. After Jonah Baldwin's return to the Whale's inside, the various groups in the Conservative party seemed last week more nearly united behind a single program than they have been for months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Again Noah; Again Whale | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...mines of wealth in the understanding of primitive minds, which include the child minds of our own time. And no age will outgrow the stimulation and enthusiasm of the noble prophetic writings. But that does not involve the acceptance of their wonder tales as literal truth. Belief in the Jonah-Whale story could not make a man any better morally, and he must stultify his intelligence in accepting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN POUND AIDS IN MODERN BIBLE MOVE | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

Next day Mr. Day was asked 'for his resignation. He tendered it willingly, left to accept a post at Leland Stanford, his alma mater, no believer in the Ark or Jonah's Whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Noah, Jonah & Howard College | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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