Word: chippewa
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...Seattle Clam Grower J. C. Carroll sued Puget Sound Navigation Co. on the ground that its steamer, Chippewa Chase, disturbed his clams...
Alidor R. Allemarsch of Sylvania, Sask., said he had made a fortune during the dry season by buying dried wells and cutting them into post holes, which sold like hot cakes. Pastures were so dry about Chippewa Falls, Wis., Guy R. Jewett said, that cows gave powdered milk. From Denver, 1933 Champion Philip McCary complained of the badge: "It isn't gold; it's brass. It isn't a diamond it's a hunk of glass...
James Montreal Gordon, a full-blooded Chippewa from Bayfield, Wis., paddled down to Miami in a canoe. The other 1,185 delegates and 50,000 members of the American Legion arrived in the Florida city by train and automobile last week for their 16th annual convention. One-&-all were in a peppery mood. Not only were the Legionaries smarting under President Roosevelt's Roanoke speech week before, in which he urged the organization to cease agitating prepayment of the Bonus and give the nation's destitute first call on the nation's coffers (TIME...
...grant an honorable discharge from the U. S. Navy to John Thomas Simpkin, twice convicted of overstaying leaves of absence; 2) to grant a year's pay ($8,000) to the widow of William Holt Gale, a foreign service officer; 3) to allow the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians to sue the Government for claims which they renounced for consideration of $1,000,000 in a treaty made 30 years...
...last week the army of the Law, 5,000 strong, seemed no closer than it had been before to John Dillinger & Co. In the woods of northern Wisconsin George (''Baby Face") Nelson stayed three days in the hut of Ollie Catfish, a Chippewa, and the Federals got on his trail after he had left. In a swamp nearby, the Federals went gunning for another gangster whom they were "sure" they had surrounded. At a bank hold-up in Chicago, another member of the gang, Homer van Meter, was "identified." In another suburb three policemen overtook a car, were...