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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your review of the film Ramona (TIME, Oct. 5), you use the word "squaw" in describing the mother of the heroine. I believe that this word means "woman" in the Algonquin language, but in most other tribes it was unknown, until introduced by whites. Among the Teton Sioux, of whom I am one, the word is a term of reproach applied to loose women. It was acquired from whites who used it freely in speaking slightingly of Indian women...
...Republican Chairman Hamilton. It announced that arrangements had been made for him to speak in Los Angeles this week. Startled at this sudden change of plans, wondering if it was caused by new hope of California since Dr. Townsend advised his followers in California to vote for Landon (TIME, Oct. 19), newshawks asked why he was going...
...latest international monetary announcement by U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., in which he said that the U. S., Britain and France have set up a "new kind of gold standard" (TIME, Oct. 19), was considered in some of the World's fiscal capitals last week important chiefly in persuading U. S. voters on the eve of election that the future monetary policies of President Roosevelt may be less radical than his acts to date...
...enemies of their devaluation move, have been trying to convince the skeptical French public that they actually have obtained from Mr. Morgenthau and from British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain a binding accord to keep the dollar, pound and franc all stabilized at their present level (TIME, Oct. 5). Cried M. Auriol: "Mr. Morgenthau has made the best answer both to the skeptics who called our original accord illusory and to men of bad intentions and bad faith who did not hesitate to sow anxiety in the public mind...
Addressing the American Club of Paris, Ambassador Bullitt paid a tribute to his predecessor, the late Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus who, as was disclosed in the U. S. fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 19), cut all charitable bequests out of his will, pointedly observing that "the increased estate taxes upon the estates of decedents are devoted in large part to Governmental social programs." Probably unaware of this, Ambassador Bullitt lauded Ambassador Straus thus : "He was a man of wealth, but knowing what his country needed, he accepted new financial burdens gladly and stood at the opposite pole from those possessors...