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...functions to the Secretary of the Interior. Among them was the duty of taxing people in the Virgin Islands who import, manufacture, produce, compound, sell, prescribe or administer marijuana for medical purposes. He also gave up the duty of removing and appointing the principal chieftains of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Indian tribes, and of approving resolutions of their tribal councils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Barnacle Scraper | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...Utes were not the only Indian tribe that was getting some back pay, long overdue. The Indian Claims Commission ruled last week that the Government owes the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians $3,489,843.58 for Oklahoma lands taken by treaty at the end of the Civil War. The Navajos hired an archaeologist to help document their claim of approximately $10 million for 20,000 square miles in the Southwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: Back Pay for the Utes | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...convention had cost Bill $4,000 of his own money, which he had raised by mortgaging his alfalfa-planted ranch in Tishomingo in the Chickasaw country. Bill never thought much about money, and never got his money back. The suggestion was made in Oklahoma's first legislature that the state reimburse him, but Bill, scowling over his handlebar mustaches, didn't think that would be "circumspect": he was the legislature's speaker. "Let's leave it to some succeeding administration," said Alfalfa Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: For an Old Debt | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Unlike most pros, Middlecoff did not graduate from the caddie ranks. His father, also a Memphis dentist, was club champion of the Chickasaw Golf Club. At the age of twelve young Cary fired a 77 one day to beat the old man. Like father, he studied to be a dentist, practiced in the Army and with his father after getting his discharge. He played now & then on the big-time golf circuit as an amateur while debating whether to be a full-time golfer or full-time dentist. In 1947, after he married Edith Buck, an airline stewardess, he decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Circuit Riders | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...book is also a sprawling monument to Author Murray's career as president of Oklahoma's constitutional convention, speaker of its first state legislature. Congressman in Washington, D.C.. successful lawyer in Indian territory, where he married the niece of a Chickasaw governor, negotiator of Indian treaties, colonist in South America (he headed a colony in Bolivia), governor (1931-35) of Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fabulous Americana | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

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