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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...madness had beaten out the brains of a helpless dwarf. That the negro nurse of the child, Choster Hurry, is the mistress of his father and mother of his six dusky half-brothers and half-sisters, that the uncle with whom Chostor goes to live is tattooed all over his body and married to a syphilitic harlot who haggles with her husband nightly over the price he must pay to sleep with her, that the youth marries the illegitimate daughter of a tattoo artist who destroys their connubial bliss by insisting her portrait be pricekd indelibly on her husband...
...five oldtime "civilized tribes." An aristocrat among Creeks is Juanita Deere McClish. Plump, pretty, full-lipped, she is 5 ft. tall, weighs 88 lb., will be 12 years old next June. Her widowed mother, Woosey Deere, owns 160 acres dotted with oil wells worth $650,000. They live in a $45,000 brick house near Sapulpa, Okla. on a neatly landscaped estate equipped with a garage for their three expensive automobiles. At Bacone Indian College & School in Muskogee, Okla. last year Juanita met and loved Buster McClish, 18, a Choctaw farmer boy from southern Oklahoma. With a baby...
...Before long Panama was swarming with gold-hungry Spaniards, killing, pillaging, torturing, sending streams of gleaming booty to the coast. More than once the wily Coclés fought off their tormentors, and in 1531 a few unconquered survivors retreated west to the high Sierras, where their descendants still live. A few yellowed pages of Spanish historians shed some light on the Coclée culture before it was destroyed. The Coclés had several distinct castes. Aris- tocrats painted and tattooed themselves, wore few clothes, as many precious ornaments as they could. The women supported their breasts...
Awarded. Notre Dame University's Laetare Medal, outstanding U. S. award to live, lay Catholics: to Mrs. Nicholas Frederic (Genevieve Garvan) Brady, philanthropist, vice chairman of the National Women's Committee on Welfare and Relief Mobilization. Last year's award: To Tenor John McCormack...
...behavior. Unfriendly to authority, he has a rooted conviction that the leaders of U. S. democracy are almost invariably charlatans or rascals. He once voted for Jefferson Davis in a Presidential election, on the principle that a first-rate dead man is better than a second-rate live one. Of President Roosevelt he says: "[He] is no Cincinnatus; his manifest scheming for the job gives his measure." NRAdministrator Johnson he calls "that vulgar ruffian Johnson, Roosevelt's strong-arm man." He finds it "hard to imagine a more despicable institution than our press. ... All that makes me suspect there...