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...Native Americans? If the U.S. met those long-standing obligations, we Indians would not have to depend on tribal casinos to meet our basic needs. Don't hate us Native Americans for doing what we must do to survive in a system that pushes us toward extinction. ANDREW CATT-IRON SHELL Rosebud...
...House. In the galleries, a tearful crowd of suffragists started singing "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." The next year, the Senate added its grudging consent, 66 to 30. This time there was no singing by the women. "To their weary senses," said Suffragist Leader Carrie Chapman Catt, "the only meaning of the vote just taken was that the Senate had at last surrendered...given in to the people it represented...
Toward Independence. On the whole businessmen say that they are not worried about the proposed change of government. Says Denis Catt, the British manager of Melanesia International, the islands' biggest trust company: "Independence has got to come. It would be quite wrong if it didn't. But it's highly likely that when it does, the financial center will be seen as a benefit and allowed to continue...
This is Walt Kelly's weakness as a satirist; he is always shading off into whimsy and gentleness. With humorous exceptions like Mole and Deacon, or Wiley Catt and Sarcophagus MaCabre, the swamp creatures want only to live quietly and be kind, to play, and to indulge in their uniaersal passion for telling each other the oldest hoariest American chestnuts. (Even the Deacon succumbs to the weakness: Mole sombrely admonishes him, "Remember forewarned is forearmed," and Deacon sniggers "I suppose an Octopus is twice as well off?" As they walk away, Mole snorts with disgust and Deacon is tee-heeing...
Ever since women got into politics they have been getting into political stories in TIME. "What women could be President of the U.S.?" asked TIME in its issue of June 14, 1926, and then reported on the answer from leading suffragettes in a cover story about Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. battle-worn president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Some woman would indeed become President one day, said TIME'S cover subject of April 23, 1928. high-born Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois, who that year began her quest for high office by being elected...