Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 1, 1909, word of Cook's claim reached civilization. Five days later Peary cabled his own claim from Labrador, followed it shortly by a bitter denunciation of Cook: "Do not trouble about Cook's story. . . . He has not been to the Pole. . . . He has simply handed the public a gold brick...
...Wilfred T. Grenfell, K.C.M.G., founder of the Grenfell Mission to Labrador, will speak about that organization's work tonight at 8 o'clock in the large auditorium of the Fogg Museum...
Along the Labrador Coast from Battle Harbor to Nain, tiny settlements lie huddled at the foot of towering, rocky cliffs. Several weatherbeaten shacks, a pier or two, boats and nets hung up to dry, comprise the weary picture. Almost no motion is apparent. Everywhere are rocks and mosquitoes and marshes extending as far as the eye can see. And smothering the scene like a heavy blanket is the smell of drying and decaying fish. For it is summer and the people who cling precariously to the shoreline are codfishing for existence...
...coast, and was so moved by the abject poverty of the inhabitants that he decided to devote his life to the betterment of their lot. Today hospitals and schools, missions and orphanages stand as tribute to the energy of one man, this doctor, whose name has become synonymous with Labrador. In the widest possible sense he has educated the people not to suffer on the barest edge of the land but to develop the resources--timber and minerals--which lie inland...
...England's debt to the U. S. It is the only way in which England could discharge her debt, and it offers the only sensible reason for giving England our support in her present difficulty. In addition to Mr. Holton's suggestions, I suggest that Newfoundland and Labrador: 1) be given to Canada, 2) be given complete independence, 3) be given...