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...Indians have only 47,000,000 acres, and many of them are dependent on government bounty. Indian Commissioner John Collier, agitating a New Deal for Indians, has for months been shuttling back and forth between the palefaces on Capitol Hill and the redmen on the reservations, holding solemn pow wows in both places about a new law (TIME, March 12). That law would give them an independent system of courts, buy new land for the landless and, in general, impose upon them added responsibility for their own welfare. Solemnly the Indian chiefs listened to Commissioner Collier. Some rejoiced...
...South America, he stated that "common interests, similar problems, and mutual devotion to the freedom offered by democratic forms of government support us as we approach the problems" of the Pan-American Conference--in short, the old formula which spawns every year a new school of invincible pow-wows...
This is a hearing on a demurrer reserved for the opinion of the full bench of the Supreme Court of the Pow Wow on an agreed statement of facts...
...club tournaments. The embryonic lawyer, gets all the laughs out of the arguments which he writes into his brief, no more nor less. These interclub debates are the laboratory work of the law student, and are carried on in high seriousness. A brief recently submitted by the famous Pow Wow Club, of which the following account is only the first page of ten, is studded with references to 38 bone fide cases in massive Langdell tomes...
...SUPREME COURT OF THE POW WOW LAW CLUB...