Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Because they have no cows, Navajo squaws nurse children many months after birth. Nearly three-quarters of the Navajos speak no English. In the last few years, the U. S. Office of Indian Affairs has built more than 40 Navajo schools, sent out about 150 young women teachers. To drum up business, the teachers invited squaws to their schoolhouses for hair-washing parties (the schools have pumps, a luxury in the arid Navajo country), then persuaded them to send their children. Communication was difficult, for the teachers knew no Navajo, their pupils no English...
...refugee Legitimist Austro-American League). He rather hopes to meet Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He said all he wanted was some sober fun, but his sympathizers, consisting principally of a few threadbare exiles who hang out in a Manhattan restaurant with a zither for Habsburg atmosphere, thought he would: 1) drum up sentiment for his Danubian Federation; 2) go to Canada to form the nucleus of an Austrian Legion at whose head he would some day ride to Imperial glory...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--The drum major of the Harvard College band, Theodore L. Sendak '40, of Gary, Indiana, tonight announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for joint representative from Lake and Porter Counties in the Indiana General Assembly...
...held eleven big press conferences, appeared at ten scheduled receptions, and shaken hands with 15,000 voters. He had collected two ten-gallon hats, a case of canned corn, had watched the dance of the Nez Percé Indians and had been serenaded in Portland, Ore., by a fife & drum corps of Civil War veterans whose leader was 95. His secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains. Like all Presidential candidates, Candidate Dewey came back with fine words to say for the strong, intelligent and courageous...
Unlike Julius Streicher's thick-lipped Der Stürmer, Das Schwarze Korps is not out to drum up low-grade circulation. Rather, it teaches young Nazi troopers to believe in the destiny of a German master race. To give his theory a "scientific" background, Publisher Himmler maintains a large research staff which analyzes and breaks down into racial groups the gallons of human blood it has collected. The staff's novel "findings" are usually aired in Das Schwarze Korps...