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...office in the Department of the Interior, stoop-shouldered, intense little John Collier shuffled through a neat stack of papers, stopped occasionally to stare at a corncob pipe in an empty water glass on his desk. In his baggy old long-sleeved green sweater, he looked like a country storekeeper closing out the week's accounts. Actually, he was closing out twelve years with the Government...
...Commissioner of Indian Affairs since 1933, John Collier has continued to be just what he was before he became a public official: the best friend the American Indian ever had. As social worker and Government man, John Collier has indignantly stood out against the prevailing U.S. opinion that the Indians are not only shiftless ne'er-do-wells but also a decadent, dying race. A visit to the Pueblos in New Mexico in 1920 ("The first time I ever came face to face with a Utopia") made him decide to fight for the Indian's right to keep...
...colleges might be severe indeed." (Other educators have expressed fears. President Robert Maynard Hutchins, of the University of Chicago, has warned of "educational hoboes"--veterans, unable to get jobs, who will be offered a chance to live at Government expense simply by going to school. In an article in Collier's magazine. Hutchins said, "Educational institutions, as the big-time football racket shows cannot resist money." "The GI Bill of Rights gives them a chance to get more money than they have ever dreamed of . . . They will not want to keep out un-qualified veterans; they will not want...
...Educational Hobos?" A recent Army survey indicated that approximately 650,000 servicemen expect to go to college after they are discharged. But even this bonanza may not be an unmixed blessing. University of Chicago's tart President Robert Maynard Hutchins voiced his fears in a Collier's article last fortnight. Excerpts...
...fast, hard worker, he could not have satisfied the quick public demand for his pretty women and his quietly satirical drawings of society life. By the time he was 25, he was the most sought-after black-&-white artist in the U.S. His fattest contract came in 1893, when Collier's agreed to pay $100,000 for 100 drawings...