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...Therefore the treaty Indians of the Blackfoot, Sarcee and Stoney tribes, as undersigned, petition and ask the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, Ltd. to double the prize list of the following: 1) best-dressed Indian and parade participants; 2) Indian races; 3) and to increase the teepee grants from...
...court (two white WACs, five white male officers, two male Negro officers) listened for two days to testimony, heard the ranking Negro WAC officer, Lieut. Tenola T. Stoney, when asked if she had noted any difference between the handling of black and white WACs at Lovell, answer: "I have not." When all the testimony was in, the court retired, soon reached its verdict: for each of the four, a year of hard labor, dishonorable discharge...
...bridge ramp this side? A disgusting spectacle. Here were hundreds of American cars, lined up bumper to bumper, coming to Windsor for just one thing. Gas. The Government allows each 'tourist' twelve gallons. All he has to say is that he's going to Tilbury or Stoney Point or Leamington or North Bay. ... He gets the little book...
WASHINGTON--A thorough Congressional airing of Rep. Melvin Maas' charges that the Navy is losing the war in the Pacific and conceals the truth from the public, appeared to be in taking shape tonight as the Navy maintained stoney silence...
Edith Sitwell (by her own proclamation) has no sense of humor. But all the Sitwells are prankish as hippogriffs. Osbert's impish autobiographical notes in Who's Who are said to freeze the other Sitwells into stoney stares of amusement. All three delight in caressing authors and critics they do not like with their individual or corporate paws. Edith once called a poem of John Masefield's "dead mutton" and Poet Cecil Day Lewis "an electric drill with the electricity left out." She and Osbert presented prizes to "the authors most representative of the tedious literature...