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Resentful Sioux...
...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...
RAYMOND BLAIR Sioux Falls...
...Sioux Falls...
President McDonald's other stroke solved one of radio's most persistent problems: how to sell farmers who have no electric current and dislike hauling their batteries to town for recharging. Last June President McDonald heard of two Iowa farm boys near Sioux City who had worked out a miniature windmill-generator. Radioman McDonald went to see Brothers John & Gerhardt Albers, helped them form a company, contracted for their entire output. Since then Zenith has sold no less than 200,000 farm sets equipped with "Winchargers...