Word: indians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patrick Jay Hurley of Tulsa, Okla., to be Assistant Secretary of War. Mr. Hurley, dapper, trim, cheerful, born in the old Indian Territory 46 years ago, began his military career as a captain in the Indian Territorial Volunteer Militia. During the War he fought through three major offensives, was cited for gallantry at Louppy, won the D. S. M. A trained lawyer, he has enriched himself in Oklahoma real estate, Tulsa banking. He is married to the daughter of Admiral Henry Braid Wilson...
Southern interest was further excited by reports that President Hoover was going to appoint, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the Democrat who held that post under President Wilson-Cato Sells of Texas. Mr. Sells now represents that considerable body of Democrats who deserted their party last year to support Herbert Hoover...
...host, Albert Davis Lasker, onetime (1921-23) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, took him to the Jockey Club races. As everyone knows, Indian-blooded Mr. Curtis used to be a jockey himself. He has an eye for fast horses the way some men have an eye for quick stocks. After the heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz...
...crimes cannot be neatly dovetailed into the law. Anna Laura Lowe committed no crime when in 1920 she married an ancient, incompetent Creek Indian named Jackson Barnett. It was no crime for her to hire lawyers, who successfully induced Commissioner of Indian Affairs Charles H. Burke to release $1,100,000 of her husband's royalty oil riches for distribution to herself and the American Baptist Home Mission Society (TIME...
...program is announced as follows: Sonata Written in 1774 Mozart Woodland Sketches McDowell (a) To a Wild Rose (b) From Uncle Remus (c) From an Indian Lodge The Music Box Ludow Intermission Rumanian Folk-Dances Bela-Bartok Marche des Pettits Soldats de Plomb Pierne Fantasie from the Opera "Johnny Spielt Auf" Kvenek