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...fear & trembling most of Montreal went about repeating Samuel Butler's words last week. POW! WHEEE! FUMP! For three long hours manhole covers burst from their settings, hurtled through the air, followed by 20-ft. comets of flame. The first covey of covers was flushed on the Boulevard St. Denis. Soon they were popping on St. Lawrence Boulevard, Jean Talon, St. André and De Fleurimont Streets. Mile away, an isolated gas station at the corner of Cremazie & St. Lawrence Boulevards blew up with a roar. A precise ambulance interne noted that the manager when picked up had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Lids Off | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

Respecting the French proposal last week two major points stood out: i) The U. S. will never place its armed forces at the disposal of a League. 2) What France proposed was exactly what Soviet propagandists accuse the Capitalist pow ers of plotting, namely to create a Super- Army-Navy-Air-Force which could be hurled against Russia to crush Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Arms for Disarmament | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...month after its first birthday, pow erful Aviation Corp., $40,000,000 holding company, last week acquired a new president. Lean, sharp-witted Graham Bethune Grosvenor stepped down to vice-chairman of the directorate while gaunt, eye-glassed, solemn-looking but humorous Frederic Gallup Coburn stepped up from the directorate and assumed the No. 1 title. Avco published no reasons for the change but well-informed observers knew the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: New Avco Chief | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...father and mother came to court and testified that they had had him pow-wowed 15 times before he was ten years old. Said Babulla Blymyer, his mother: "Yes, John was hexed. But who done it? You can't tell that. There's so many witches around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hex & Hoax | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Docket number 58 is the McKenna Club (Hines, Nelson) versus the Pow-Wow Club (Birge, Reeves). The meeting will be at 19 Farwell Place with H. M. Hamblen 3L as chief justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

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