Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Arizona, Navajo chiefs, with the help of interpreters, held a powwow with Pilot C. S. Barnes, a onetime Army colonel now prospering in the rainmaking business. It was hard going, because there are no Navajo words for Barnes's way of producing rain. Talking Navajo, however, was a mere concession to ceremony: ten of the twelve Indians on the tribal council are college educated...
...biggest mistake was made when Arizona's Senator McFarland yelled at him "You do violate the law?" and Erickson blurted "yes" in a startled squeak. Four days later, Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan seized all of Erickson's neat records, and the big gambler's financial front man began singing for the D.A. Hogan charged Frank with conspiracy and 59 counts of bookmaking...
...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), well-poised bishop on the rostrum rapped for order and the 700-odd members settled down. So this week, at the 100th annual Conference of the Southern California-Arizona Methodist Church at the University of Redlands, 71-year-old Bishop Alexander Preston Shaw became the first Negro to preside full-time over a conference of white Methodists...
...Arizona: Thomas T. Clark, Jr. '41; 40 Caile Clara Vista, Tucson...
...explained that as the fish were running it would take him a couple of months to get around to it. In due time he shipped a six-foot-square totemic design, painted on cedar boards, airmail to Chicago. Like Nielson, Hopi Indian Fred Kabotie, who painted Arizona, refused to submit preliminary sketches. He hastened into the desert, shot a mule deer, skinned it, painted a picture on the hide, and sent it off. The painted hide, complete with head and tail, now hangs in the office where Paepcke is ruminating a new campaign to start next month...