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Many of the songs she has collected have been used as themes by U. S. composers. Plump precise Ethnographer Densmore started out as a conventional musician, studied piano and composition at Oberlin Conservatory and Harvard. But when, at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1892, she saw Chief Rain-in-the-Face dance with a fringe of human scalps around his coat, she really sat up and took notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whoop Collector | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

George Clark McElheny, Tiffin, Ohio--Columbian High School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 243 Freshmen From Everywhere Win Scholarships | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...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 of their Christian heritage, implicit in their status as American citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Indians' Friends | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...dreamy, introspective and so romantic that her admirers were unable to measure up to her ideal of a lover. She had resigned herself to spinsterhood, had published a few verses, when in 1891 she got the commission to write a poem for the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition. Opponents wanted to replace her with John Greenleaf Whittier, then 85. Despite illness, an operation, a nervous attack, Harriet Monroe finished her ode in time, demanded and received $1,000 for it, had the satisfaction of hearing it read before an audience of 120,000, its chorus sung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chicago Poetry | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...last week in office was exceedingly strenuous. Back in Washington from Florida, he dined privately with the President; worked on a deal by which the Maritime Commission proposes to buy three good ships from International Mercantile Marine, for South American service; announced consolidation of the Grace Steamship Co. and Columbian Steamship Co.; discussed plans for building for South American trade three new 25-knot luxury liners convertible into aircraft carriers. He also had his last say on his two biggest and unsolved problems-new construction and maritime labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Kennedy Candor | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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