Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also made White Chief and Protector of the Sioux Indians. Chief Henry Standing Bear administered the oath of fealty, said: "Mr. President, it is a great honor to us that you have come among us and into our camp. . . . Our fathers and our chiefs, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail and Red Cloud, may have made mistakes, but their hearts were brave and strong, their purposes were honest and noble. They have long gone to their Happy Hunting Ground, and we call upon you, as our new High Chief, to take up their leadership ... to protect and help the weak...
...order to claim that their plan was really the more economical, the British trailed a red herring across the issue as follows. They stated the obvious fact that a small ship costs less than a large one, and then pointed out that their plan called for many ships individually smaller than those proposed by the U. S. delegation. Thus the British said in effect: "We want cherries and you want peaches. A cherry costs less than a peach, and therefore our plan is the cheaper...
...found many traces of an extinct culture higher than the present Eskimo culture; became certain that Eskimos and Red Indians are kindred stocks. In May, Ethnologist Herbert W. Krieger of the Smithsonian Institution went to the Yukon to elaborate Dr. Hrdlicka's preliminary diggings. Before leaving, Mr. Krieger gave his opinion of the runic inscriptions on a boulder near Spokane, Wash., which some had held recounted a battle there between Indians and Norsemen in 1010 A. D. (TIME, Oct. 11). Mr. Krieger thought the "runes" were Indian ideographs, recording migrations up the Columbia River for food...
This newspaper was called the Morning Journal. Later Mr. Hearst rechristened it the New York American. Reverting to title he brought out a little sister of the evening (the Evening Journal). These two papers were the steppingstones in Mr. Hearst's climb to red ink pinnacles of domination in the sensational newspaper field...
CIRCUS PARADE?Jim Tully?A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Before he became a literary man, Jim Tully was, as everyone knows, a he-man who got slapped hard by life. His thick red hair was badly tousled in roundhouses, barrooms, boxcars and worse. Hanging around a small-time circus was comparatively idyllic. All he had to do was help drive the tentstakes, feed the animals, chase vermin, and fool or fight the "rube" public in quiet sections of the South. He had much time to develop his "understanding" of the rudimentary humanities and brutalities of hand-to-mouth people and evolve...