Word: colliere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frontier. Much of their consecrated vigor derived from their missionary work among U. S. Indians. Today the welfare of the nation's 337,000 red men lies less with the churches than with the Government, particularly with Secretary of the Interior Ickes and zealous Indian Commissioner John Collier. Last week in Atlantic City, missionary chagrin over this state of affairs spilled over. At a Conference of Friends of the Indian-representing two secular Indian associations and Indian mission workers of 28 Protestant churches-a report cited lawlessness, drinking, vice, illegal marriages in Indian communities, blamed the "hands-off policy...
...story of the progress of the red men in adopting standards of Christian civilization stands out ... as an impressive illustration of the effectiveness of co-operative effort and sympathetic understanding between the forces representing the church in America and the governmental agencies." By contrast, the report cited Commissioner Collier's well-known policy of helping Indians to "turn back to their so-called ancient cultures, and to revive pagan practices and ceremonies of the pre-Columbian era." This "appears to the Christian forces of America to be a denial of the right of Indians to enter into an appreciation...
...private investigators who like to drink double triple Scotches manage between drinks to solve a kidnapping, a shooting and a poisoning on a Florida estate. In spots very funny; very, very tough throughout. Readers with weak stomachs had better not apply. A condensed version appeared serially in Collier's under the title A Queen's Ransom...
Last week in Washington, two tall Wounded Knee veterans named James Pipe-on-Head and Dewey Beard called on small Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier. Their purpose: to urge him to ask Congress to award $1,000 to all living Indian survivors of the battle, including themselves...
...Editor Canby stepped down to the post of contributing editor. To his desk went aggressive, irascible, 39-year-old Bernard De Voto, who had been a lecturer at Harvard, editor of The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, a successful contributor to the Satevepost, Red Book, Collier's. Born in Ogden, Utah, the son of a Notre Dame mathematics teacher and a Mormon girl, Bernard De Voto entered the University of Utah at 17, helped organize a socialist society, left Utah in disgust when three faculty members were dismissed for unorthodox opinions. He went to Harvard, enlisted, was a lieutenant...