Word: colliere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DEFY THE FOUL FIEND-John Collier-Knopf...
...Shakespeare (''Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend"&151; King Lear), Author John Collier has written a robust and racy novel of which Henry Fielding would have been proud. Readers of Defy the Foul Fiend may look forward to continuous entertainment of a high order, will close the book with the feeling that they have added a first-rate volume to their library of 20th Century English letters. No literary left-winger but a traditionalist, Author Collier adds his bit to the quietly...
...meantime last week Mr. Hearst. Son John, Miss Davies, William Collier Jr. and Dorothy Mackaiil arrived in London after a leisurely trip through Spain. Correspondents flocked about Miss Davies, quizzed her about her portrait. Said she: "I cannot understand what it all means. So far as I know the people running the show asked that my portrait be sent...
Half a century ago the 390,000 Indians in the U. S. owned 157,000,000 acres of land. Today 330,000 Indians have only 47,000,000 acres, and many of them are dependent on government bounty. Indian Commissioner John Collier, agitating a New Deal for Indians, has for months been shuttling back and forth between the palefaces on Capitol Hill and the redmen on the reservations, holding solemn pow wows in both places about a new law (TIME, March 12). That law would give them an independent system of courts, buy new land for the landless...
Death did not end, however, the story of the richest U. S. Indian. Indian Commissioner John Collier had the burial post-poned because Barnett's ex-wife wanted to bury him in California while some of his Indian relatives wanted him brought back to Oklahoma. Before the funeral Hubert Howard Barnett, 27, claiming to be a nephew, asked to be made administrator of his estate. And Mrs. Lowe said that under California law she would demand a 50% share of the estate...