Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter from Africa last week interested the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Manhattan. Wrote Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, digger in East Africa: "It is almost beyond question that the skeleton of a human being found by Professor Hans Reck in 1913 is the oldest known authentic skeleton of Homo sapiens...
...grim, guttural Apache, Golney ("Mac") Seymour, undersized Redskin buck, told a Federal court in Globe. Ariz. last week how he happened to attack and kill white Henrietta Schmerler, Columbia University student, last summer (TIME...
...Department of Justice operative rode the Apache reservation for three months before he found the murderer of Miss Schmerler. A graduate student of ethnology, she had gone to live on the White River Reservation to study for her thesis. Brought to trial Prisoner Seymour had firm backing from his tribe. His bewildered 19-year-old wife, mother of two, testified in his behalf. An old patriarch called "R-14" (Indian agents can not figure out how his name should be Anglicized) donated $1,500 to hire a defense lawyer...
Found guilty, Apache Seymour was condemned to life imprisonment...
...successful dark horse on the other hand is usually colorless. He is the man without active enemies, without a striking record in national politics. He is essentially a compromise candidate brought forward when a deadlock has been reached between more outstanding aspirants. Consider James K. Polk in 1844, Horation Seymour, Democratic nominee in 1868, James A. Garfield in 1880, and Warren G. Harding...