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...President's order one Chili Fish, an Oklahoma Seminole, was last week given a one-day commission as chief of all that Indian nation. During that day Chief Chili Fish will sign Government papers relating to Seminole lands in Oklahoma, transact other tribal business, collect $10 in wages, $5 in expenses. When Florida's Seminoles heard about the appointment, they telegraphed President Hoover they would refuse to recognize Chili Fish's jurisdiction in their councils...
...responsible for the installation there of his friend George Bruce Cortelyou as president) and Chrysler Corp. (When Walter P. Chrysler was founding his since famed company it was Brady estate money which practically financed his project.) Other companies of which Nicholas was a director were Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Chili Copper Co., Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., Mohawk-Hudson Power Corp. and dozens of power and light companies mostly in New York State and in Japan...
ROMANCE OF THE RIO GRANDE (Mary Duncan)?Chili con carne in the manner of Edith Wharton, beautifully photographed...
...forbid," said one of Carry's victims watching her work, "that I should ever strike a woman." She once told how two men tried to asphyxiate her by blowing cigaret-smoke through a hotel keyhole. When one place she raided proved to sell nothing more potent than chili con carne, she asked God to forgive the owner for tempting U. S. appetites with foreign dishes. She objected to the tobacco trade-name "Bull Durham" because bulls were manifestly no tobacco users. When she was jailed, a follower wrote to the judge: "We now propose if Mrs. Nation is held...
...famous. The town itself is unimportant, but there is a church, and last week there was a machine gun in the belfry-a federal gun. "Sangre de Dios!" cried the captain of a band of Insurrectos which had surprised this little federal outpost, "Blood of Christ, bring me chili, bring me peppers!" Armfuls and armfuls of dried chili were stacked on the windward side of the steeple by artful Insurrectos who took care to work under the eaves of the church, out of range of the machine gun. Then the pepper pyre was lighted. Thick clouds of oily, acrid, pepper...