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...Polar Bears?" U. S. pundits-including the State Department-solemnly noted that President Roosevelt had "extended the Monroe Doctrine to include Canada" -overlooking the facts that: 1) President Monroe's famed message to Congress in 1823 was specifically occasioned by conversations with Imperial Russia over its Alaskan and Pacific Coast colonies: 2) referred to "the American Continents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: New Axis? | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...director slumped to the floor unconscious, was taken to the hospital with two broken ribs.) In Denmark Author Freuchen went to work to make money with as much frank delight as if he were harpooning a fine catch of seals. Marrying a beautiful margarine heiress, he began lecturing, wrote Polar news for a Copenhagen newspaper, became editor of a magazine started by his in-laws to lend prestige to the margarine business. When Freuchen was gypped, as when he bought his island estate, Enehoje, or when a lecture fell through, or when his money-making schemes (such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Dane Tamed | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...presence of such a thing as Spinachanthropus in the dim, dusty corridors of the past may necessitate entire revision of present theories concerning the descent of man from Northarctic, the naked polar bear. Instead of Northarctic, the root of all evilution may very likely be one of the progenitors of Spinachanthropus. This progenitor has not been discovered yet, but the very presence of Spinachanthropus itself indicates that he must have had a father, which in turn must have had a father and so on. Spinachseed is confident that he will not have to look too far back for this ancestral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

BELOW THE ROARING FORTIES-F. D. Ommanney-Longmans, Green ($3). Antarctic adventures (1929-1937) of a London zoologist, with smelly descriptions of whaling, acute descriptions of penguins and seals, warm descriptions of the Discovery's, Norwegian crew members, an exciting account of narrow escape from polar ice and marooning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Fifty-eight-year-old Polar Explorer Linncoln Ellsworth announced he would leave Manhattan August 13 for his fourth expedition to Antarctica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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