Word: chippewa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking up from their reed-laced duck-blind, the two hunters saw a Chippewa Indian guide splashing toward them through the frozen marsh. "Man is shot!" he shouted. "An accident! An accident!" The two men hurried to another blind, 300 yds. away, where they came on a hunter's nightmare. On the rough hummock, Harry W. Anderson, 67, retired vice president of General Motors, lay dying, a gaping wound in the back of his head. Over his body crouched Harlow Curtice, 66, onetime General Motors president (TIME, Jan. 2, 1956), in a state of trembling shock...
Without Prejudice. In Chippewa Falls, Wis., learning that her son John had been placed on a jury list. Mrs. Richard Risler informed the county jury commission that John was six weeks...
...treaty signed in 1827, the government of Canada and its sovereign recognized the perpetual right of the Chippewa Indians to occupy their reserve on the banks of the St. Clair River, not far from Detroit, in what later became the city of Sarnia. Last week, in one of the biggest real estate deals ever closed in Canada, the Chippewas sold 2,768 acres of their ancestral domain to New England Industries of New York. Price...
Republican Padrutt, 36, an ex-schoolteacher from Chippewa Falls who had served in the legislature for 13 years, sold his photographic supply shop to make the race for Congress. He conducted an active campaign, had the help of a four-day tour in his behalf by Republican Governor Walter Kohler. He said little about the farm issue until late in the campaign. Then he blamed the farm squeeze-rising cost of living and falling farm prices-on old Democratic policies, and promised to help develop a better plan. He campaigned on the President's coattails: "Help Ike to help...
Frosted Flag. After a cornet duet and a song (Indian Love Call), plump Mrs. Julia Bennett, the Chippewa historian, instructed the colonel in the "teachings and ideals in the ancient Chippewa faith," and the assembled braves and chiefs christened Bertie Me-Gee-See, i.e., "Chief Eagle." Explained Historian Bennett: "What it really means is that now he can come and dance with us any time he wants...