Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field with 1.300 performers. It began at the geological beginning. Several men carrying torches represented volcanoes and lava. Groups of maidens took the parts of stars, seas, land, flowers. Girls in white garments were the Glacier. Girls in bulky costumes typified Solid Land. In Act II a band of Sioux chased a band of Pawnees, then performed a Sun Dance. Next came Spanish conquistadors, French Jesuits, Scouts Lewis and Clark, frontiersmen, Stephen A. Douglas. To end the pageant all joined in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and saluting the flag...
Elections. To succeed President Gurney Elwood Newlin, the Association elected Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham, Ala. John Howard Voorhees of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and William Patterson MacCracken Jr. of Chicago were reflected Treasurer and Secretary...
Rickenbacker Field, as all airmen know, is at Sioux City, Iowa. Ace Wolff happened by that city as manager of the Freiburg Players, touring the U. S. with their Passion Play (TIME, May 13). Ace Wolff and the Fassnacht family of Freiburg, Germany, who dominate the cast of the Passion Play, are old acquaintances...
They lately met again in Kansas City after years during which Ace Wolff was an engineer for the Mercedes and Junker concerns. Play-managing did not appeal to Ace Wolff so strongly as the chance to return to the air which was offered him in Sioux City by Arthur S. Hanford Jr. of Hanford Tri-State Air Lines...
...fliers with War experience now mark Sioux City as a spot on their maps where they can stop for good talk, in the supranational camaraderie of the air, about flying and fighting on both sides of a line now erased...