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...westernize Indians had obviously failed, Commissioner Collier proposed to revive the tribes' old life and culture, help them become selfsupporting, largely self-governing, thoroughly Indian communities. Result was the Reorganization Act, passed last year with President Roosevelt's support over the fierce opposition of ranchers and lumbermen who stood to lose valuable properties leased from Indians and who succeeded in barring Oklahoma Indians from the Act's provisions...
...rich small-town community. Barney's defeat by his son, who got both pretty Lotta Lindbeck and his father's business, Lotta's adventures in European "society," the 1929 crash and the return to Wisconsin, are narrative trimmings for Author Ferber's slickly factual researches. Lumbermen may be impressed by proofs that she can talk their lingo...
Southern hardwood lumbermen openly defied NRA to enforce code prices after they were offered a huge order from Fisher Body Corp. (TIME, Sept. 17). In the softwood regions of the Northwest chiseling was the rule. To keep a finger on the chaotic industry, NIRB last week made a point of retaining the Lumber Code's production control...
Last week in the Hotel Peabody in Memphis, 500 hardwood lumbermen assembled in a hot session of their Institute to hear not their best customer but the lumbermen themselves attack price-fixing. More notable, the meeting was largely concerned with a single order? some 30,000,000 to 50,000,000 ft. of hardwood for Fisher bodies...
...when we go into a public place, and we have the Indians pretty well in hand now? but we do not like this condition to be generally known back there because it might spoil our tourist trade. However I will have to apologize for the crude tactics of our lumbermen. They have not even advanced to the Stone Age in their methods of warfare. For instance, one rarely sees anything but fists used in a lumber camp brawl out here. And it begins to look as if it would be a long time indeed before they will have become civilized...