Word: tribes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joining Indian tribes is good politics in the U. S. President Coolidge joined the Sioux last year. This year the whole G. 0. P. affiliated itself with the Kaw & Osage tribes through Nominee Curtis. Notable among individual joinings this season was an event last week in Wisconsin. Sol Levitan, Jew, the State Treasurer, became Tchay-Ska-Kah, or Der Weisser Bock, or White Deer, a chief in the Winnebago tribe...
...Levitan thanked Chief White Wings, his host. "Chief," he said, "you are the best looking chief I have seen for a long time. I wish you good luck-you and the whole bunch [tribe...
...years old, expects to weigh 200 pounds for the fight. Details of training make him sulky; he does not like the tea in the U. S. He is happy when dressed up in quietly tailored clothes and when friends are spoofing him. He delights in boasting about his healthy tribe back in New Zealand-his mother who can do a full day's milking at 80, his sister who has "possibly 20 children." He is a hard man to knockout, but his defense is clumsy. If he becomes champion, he will have a good time and people will think...
...third time in the history of the potent Astor tribe, a yacht named Nourmahal (Arabic for "Light of 'My Soul") cut the waters of New York Harbor. The new Nourmahal is the biggest and sleekest of them all-2,000 tons, 264 feet overall, twin-screw Diesel engines developing 3,200 horsepower, speed of 16 knots, all-steel hull. Skipper-owner Vincent Astor, Brother-in-law Prince Obolensky, several friends and crew of 45 had brought her from Kiel, Germany, where she had been built by the firm of Fried & Krupp from plans by Theodore E. Ferris, Manhattan naval...
Chief Bacon Rind of the Osage tribe arose and intoned, nasally, the saga of "Cousin Charley" Curtis, Republican nominee for Vice President...