Word: collier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Admiral Doenitz ordered his U-boats to cease hostilities-a convoy bound for Boston battled with a wolf pack and lost the collier Black Point, with twelve dead. One sub which dived to the bottom, 130 feet down, was destroyed by depth bombs...
Married. Herbert Asbury, 53, historian of shady Americana (The Gangs of New York, The French Quarter, The Barbary Coast), associate editor of Collier's magazine, descendant of U.S. Methodism's first Bishop, Francis Asbury; and Edith Snyder Evans, 34, New York City Associated Press reporter; both for the second time; in Fort...
...Collier's Reorganization Act, adopted by Congress in 1934 over the fierce opposition of lumbermen and ranchers (who stood to lose valuable leaseholds by it), opened the way. Indians finally had the use of their tribal holdings and the right to extend them. Also each reservation could, by majority vote, incorporate its business affairs under federal charter and secure a constitution...
...John Collier, who neither hunts, fishes, nor speaks any Indian language, is moderately pleased with what has happened since then. The Indians' income is up 300%, their death rate down from 28 (in 1928) to 13.5 per thousand...
Since 1900 their population has increased 53% (from 237,000 to 377,000*). John Collier, who hopes to establish an organization to help all U.S. minorities, thinks that eventually his Indian friends can become happily integrated with the U.S. economy. "But," says he, "the main thing now is that at least they have a will to live...