Word: eskimo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Ottawa last week the Canadian Department of Justice radioed to the Royal Mounted Police schooner Stroche, frozen in Arctic pack ice, an order to release the Eskimo Squaw Kobvello whom seagoing Canadian Mounties arrested last December, charged with murdering one Fritz Schurer, a naturalized U. S. citizen...
...radio Squaw Kobvello could not have been brought to trial until the pack ice melts. Her case, Arcticly outside the realm of ordinary journalism and ordinary jurisprudence, was briefly summarized thus: "It is the custom in the Arctic for an Eskimo in need of a servant to follow his traplines and do other labor, simply to seize any single woman he sees and take her with him into the wilderness. Schurer did just that to her, Kobvello said. He seized her on Herschel Island, forced her to accompany him on a trapping expedition and made her do all the manual...
Last fortnight Denmark refused Transamerican Airlines concessions for bases on its Eskimo colony, Greenland (TIME, April 18). That this implied a breakdown of the project was denied by company officials; negotiations would be continued, they said. But the Parliament of the Kingdom of Iceland (whose king is big King Christian X of Denmark) did not refuse to grant a 75-year franchise to Transamerican when Judge Gudmunder Crimson of Rugby, N. Dak., who in 1930 represented his State at the millennial of the founding of the Icelandic parliament, intervened. Judge Grimson went to Copenhagen to plead with the King...
Over his Eskimos bushy-bearded Danish Premier Theodore A. M. Stauning broods as anxiously as any hen over her chicks. Last week Herre Stauning's Cabinet again upheld his slogan "Greenland for the Eskimos!" (TIME, March 23 & June 8, 1931), rejected an application from Transamerican Airlines Corp. for a concession to establish transatlantic flying bases in Greenland and at Copenhagen. (Three times larger than the Kingdom of Denmark is its Eskimo-infested colony Great Greenland...
...confirmation." His associates proceeded to discuss among other things: The Nose of the American Negro (Dr. George Dee Williams, St. Louis;; The Clavicle of the American Negro (Dr. Robert James Terry, St. Louis); Body Proportions of Adult Catarrhine Primates (Dr. Adolph Hans Schnltz, Baltimore); Dental Caries in Living Alaskan Eskimo (Henry B. Collins Jr., Washington); Notes on Cheyenne Anthropometry (Dr. Truman Michelson, son of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson, Washington...