Word: indianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian headdress (see cut). This is the third time in three months that the ambitious "Little Flower" has got out into the hinterland to let the people see what he looks and sounds like...
...year-old Chicago sculptor named Felix Schlag last week gave the U. S. Treasury Department a nickel, received $1,000 in change. Sculptor Schlag's was no ordinary nickel, but a prize-winning plaster design for a new issue to be minted this fall, replacing the Buffalo-Indian head, which has lived its minimum statutory life of 25 years. The 1938 nickel will have on its heads side the profile of Thomas Jefferson, on its tails side his Monticello, Va. home. Schlag's design was chosen by Director of the Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross, Sculptors Heinz Warneke, Albert...
...attorney 400 ship shares at $100 apiece. Since the value of a share had been $1,717, Mrs. Cadwalader claimed capital losses of $647,124-a matter that will be threshed out in a Federal court probably next winter. Meanwhile, the Savarona had cruised about the West Indian seas and had crossed the Atlantic several times, although she avoided U. S. waters...
Hardly more than a generation ago, U. S. churches still had a stirring sense of the U. S. 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...
...Neither Indian Commissioner Collier nor Secretary Ickes showed up in Atlantic City, as the conference had hoped, to defend their work. Mr. Collier sent a message, in which he ducked religious issues, said his bureau is hampered by "a thousand antiquities," begged the co-operation of alert citizens, for "Indians will always have neighbors who stand to profit by despoiling whatever little property they may have, and debauching them as human beings...