Word: mohican
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...York harbor last week, a U.S. Customs officer briskly climbed aboard the S.S. Mohican, a World War II Liberty ship, as she lay at anchor. The officer informed the captain that the ship was being seized by the U.S. Government. His reason: the U.S. ship, in violation of a 1916 law, was being operated by an alien owner, Stavros Niarchos, a Greek who had bought her as war surplus through U.S. nationals as dummies...
...Race Day at New London. It is not only the traditional boat race (that started back in 1852) that lures every alumnus who can get away for a day from the serious pursuits of life, but also the fun of wading through the broken glass in the Mohican Hotel and shouting long-forgotten nicknames through the narrow streets of Connecticut's famed old whaling port...
...AMERICA AWAKE, THE OXFORD GROUP, STOCKBRIDGE. With the local post of the American Legion the Groupers paraded, held a meeting in front of the Stockbridge town hall. Leader of the parade, in a dirty, beaded leather jacket, was an Indian chief named Uhm-Pa-Tuth, billed as a Stockbridge (Mohican) Indian who had ended up on a reservation in Wisconsin, there turned to God and away from civilization and education which, he told the meeting, "don't make an Indian or anybody else any bet-ter." Marchers in the parade carried the flags of 48 States and 18 nations...
Died. William Dick (Makwa Monpuy or Maq-uua-pey), 76, certified by ethnologists as actually "the last of the Mohicans''; in Milwaukee's County Hospital. With no one to talk to in the melodious Mohican tongue he learned from his grandmother, he was able to recall only 300 words of it for a University of Chicago anthropologist last year...
When the late Frank A. Munsey, as head of a string of cut-rate grocery stores, first began to dream of newspaper grandeur, there entered his employ a young Canadian named William T. Dewart. Mr. Munsey owned the Mohican Hotel in New London, Conn. Mr. Dewart became a bookkeeper there. Last week, aged 51, Mr. Dewart ap- peared as the purchaser of the late Mr. Munsey's New York Sun and New York Evening Telegram, together with the Mohican Hotel and other New London properties. Somehow Mr. Dewart had financed the purchase individually, even as Mr. Munsey financed...