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If they want access to Alaska over Canadian soil there should be no hesitation in settling the matter. In fact nothing short of the impairment of our status as a sovereign nation would be too much for Canada to offer as a sacrifice on the altar of liberty and freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Hate-Free, Fear-Free | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

John Metoyer, an olive-brown pixie who founded the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club in a woodshed 30 years ago, had never been King of the Zulus. He hardly cared. As daily host to the Zulus at his cafe (now called the Brown Bomber) on Perdido Street, he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Coconuts | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

These relics were found in 1931 by James Edward Dodd, a railroad brakeman who had staked out mining claims near Beardmore, and was digging and blasting in his spare time. He took them home, thinking they were Indian relics. His wife insisted that he get "that junk" out of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Norse | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

In a one-room shack on the Meadowbrook Farm near Merced, Calif., Mrs. Ola Harwell, 26, was reading the Bible to her husband Woodrow, itinerant cotton picker, and her two small sons: "Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee," read Mrs. Harwell from the Book of Matthew, "cut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Birds | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Hot on his analytical trail, Investigator Goodfellow extended his research to cover the program's dramatization of telepathy case histories. In one of them thought transference was said to have brought a California wife-murderer to justice by revealing to a neighbor that the dead woman had been buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Patterns and Peephole | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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