Word: sioux
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Public Service by a newspaper was best exemplified, the judges thought, by the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, which went out of its own bailiwick to expose political corruption in Sioux City & environs. Crusading Editor Verne Marshall prodded the legislature and the Woodbury County (Sioux City) grand jury into investigating connivance between law-breakers and officials (TIME, Sept. 30). Result was the conviction of the chairman of the State Liquor Commission for illegally disposing of State liquor seals, suspension of Sioux City's mayor and the resignations under fire of the Woodbury County attorney and public safety commissioner. As higher...
...Circumstance"Elgar *Overture to "Orpheus in the Underworld" Offenbach *Minuet from the String Quintet Boccherini *Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg "Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss *"The Mastersingers of Nuremburg," Introduction to Act III Wagner *Second Hungarian Rhapsedy Liszt Two Indian Dances Skilton Song with Orchestra--"Fallen-Leat" (Sioux Prayer Melody) Logan Chief Ho-To-Pi, Indian Tenor "Sipapu," Ritualistic Indian Dance Hadley Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...Haven, Conn., March 20--Buffalo Bear, tribal chief of the Oglala Sioux, and chief attraction of the New Haven Sportsmen's Show; and his pal, Chief Crazy Bull of the Hunkpapa Sioux outfit, have been affording Eli students of Linguistics and Anthropology a unique opportunity to ply their science...
...family matter. Homestake was one of the biggest winnings made by his mining-minded father in a long and gamesome career.* With two partners, the late Senator George Hearst bought the Homestake claims for $70,000 and incorporated them in San Francisco in 1877. In the preceding summer the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians had been driven westward out of the Black Hills by U. S. troops sent to avenge the Custer massacre, and for the first time a miner's scalp was safe in Gold Run Canyon, site of the first prospecting. The rich lodes at Homestake soon grew...
Because of the intense loyalty and faith the duped give the dupers, the Government has had a hard time running the fraud to earth. Two years ago at Sioux City, Iowa, Oscar Merrill Hartzell was convicted of using the mails to defraud Drakesters, was given ten years in Leavenworth. Hartzell started out as an Iowa farmer as dimwitted as the rest of the Drake Estate "contributors." After he had put up $6,000 of his mother's money, he made a trip to England in 1922 to see how it was being spent. There he promptly switched from...