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From Ottawa last week the Canadian Department of Justice radioed to the Royal Mounted Police schooner Stroche, frozen in Arctic pack ice, an order to release the Eskimo Squaw Kobvello whom seagoing Canadian Mounties arrested last December, charged with murdering one Fritz Schurer, a naturalized U. S. citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Squaw on Ice | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...radio Squaw Kobvello could not have been brought to trial until the pack ice melts. Her case, Arcticly outside the realm of ordinary journalism and ordinary jurisprudence, was briefly summarized thus: "It is the custom in the Arctic for an Eskimo in need of a servant to follow his traplines and do other labor, simply to seize any single woman he sees and take her with him into the wilderness. Schurer did just that to her, Kobvello said. He seized her on Herschel Island, forced her to accompany him on a trapping expedition and made her do all the manual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Squaw on Ice | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...Amerindian primitive art chosen by John Sloan. There she listened attentively while fluttering Mrs. Garrett delivered a lecture on the differences between the Hopis of Arizona and the Zunis of New Mexico, the relative merits of such artists as Ma-Pe-We, Awa Tsireh, Oqua Pi, and that talented squaw, plump Quah Ah, otherwise known in Santa Fe as Tonita Pena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hopis & Zunis in Venice | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

Under the auctioneer's gavel last week went famed 101 Ranch, bringing sorrow to the hearts of many a cowboy, cowgirl, Indian chief & squaw, including onetime Cowboys Will Rogers & Tom Mix, but mostly to the heart of Col. Zachary Taylor Miller, owner, who lay abed ill with a shotgun standing in the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shotgun v. Gavel | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...student helped the defendant in an interesting case in an East Boston court for assault and battery. The complainant who called herself "Minnie the Squaw", was playing whist with the defendant when she mentioned that the defendant's husband had "been hanging around her lately." The defendant denied this vigorously. A "brawl" ensued in which the furniture was damaged and glasses broken. The Bureau won the case for the defendant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 3/24/1932 | See Source »

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