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Though Crusader Collier is about as popular with Indians as any white Government official could be, he has had to hold many a powwow to persuade braves & squaws that his plan is good. Justly do Indians point out that every previous Government move to help Indians has all but cost the Indians their scalps. Spirited young Indians who have strayed off the reservation to college resent any suggestion of new Government paternalism, hotly demand the right to become normal, unsegregated U. S. citizens. But Indians on any reservation may take or leave the Act's provisions as the majority...
...last week behind the polished Washington desk of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes. It was a great & grave occasion- the signing of the first tribal constitution under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (TIME, June 25, 1934). Secretary Ickes and Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier were as solemn as the Indians. Just as cameras were about to record the event for posterity a horrified Ickes press-agent spied, clinging to one Indian's ancestral costume, what seemed to be a thoroughly anachronistic price tag. In a flurry of embarrassment the chieftain...
Then aggressive, intense, little John Collier became Indian Commissioner in 1933, that longtime crusader for Indian justice resolved that the nation's red men (now numbering about 350,000, less than half of them full-blooded*) should also have a New Deal. Since 1887, corrupt Indian agents and greedy civilians had tricked, swindled and robbed U. S. Indians of approximately one billion dollars in cash and all but the worst 47,000,000 of their 138,000,000 acres of land, largely reducing them to dependent pauperism. Since attempts to individualize and westernize Indians had obviously failed, Commissioner Collier...
...years a large number English novels, dealing with life in the near or remote future, have testified to the despair that imaginative men experience when they try to visualize the forthcoming developments of society. Pictures of the future range from its complete lapse into barbarism presented by John Collier in Full Circle to the monotonously sanitary and inhuman order satirized by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. Last week Herbert George Wells offered yet another conceivable fate for mankind with Things to Come, a scenario which London Films's Alexander Korda is now transmuting into a cinema...
...Collier's decided to buy an hour on NBC John B. Kennedy was the staff orator, and easily got the job of putting on the program. He doesn't write anything anymore except radio lines for himself. You may have heard him with Lawrence Tibbett last year. This winter he is appearing over NBC with a big cast that will dramatize the day's news on the air, John B. Kennedy will be there to comment on the commentators and lend dignity to the whole affair...