Word: eskimo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flushing, N. Y., Deputy Health Commissioner John Grimley ordered evicted Eskimo Robert Mayokok, his wife, four children, from a World's Fair igloo. Reason: the igloo is an exhibit, not a domicile...
...Washington: Artist, ardent leftist and Eskimo-lover, tall, long-jawed Rockwell Kent, who designed this year's National Tuberculosis Association Christmas seals; Harold Ickes; Norman Davis, Red Cross head; James Farley; Henry Morgenthau...
When Bishop Rowe went there in 1895, the Episcopal Church had three missions in its Alaska diocese (586,400 square miles). To reach them, he had to mush with a dog sled. From Indian and Eskimo companions, the Bishop learned to keep his socks dry at 78 below zero. He learned the knack of building a fire in a howling gale, learned to pick off wolves outside the camp circle with a rifle. Bishop Rowe mushed 2,000 miles each winter-in sum, he said, more than any other man in Alaska...
...short-wave partner of Pittsburgh's KDKA. As 8XK, 8XS, then W8XK, this station has been broadcasting since 1921, is perhaps most noted for one of the least-heard radio features in the world-regular Far North news and general program broadcasts in English, French, Icelandic, Danish and Eskimo. The station was originally (as was KDKA) a gimmick in the garage of Westinghouse's Dr. Frank Conrad. The place had so much reverberation that Dr. Conrad pitched a tent inside, over the works-a sort of first radio soundproofing. It was 8XS that transmitted the first international broadcast...
...Appropriated $795,000 to buy Alaskan reindeer to feed 19,000 Eskimo families...