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...President was concerned the Jefferson Islands powwow was perfectly timed. Of his New Deal measures a good handful needed only a smattering more of Congressional goodwill to reach him in forms that exactly suited his taste-the Utility Bill, TVAmendments, AAAmendments, Banking Bill. With them out of the way there would remain but one cause of friction between him and Congress- his tax bill. Hardly a Congressional leader at Jefferson Islands but was annoyed because the President had demanded that that measure be hurried through this session...
...around a huge central platform. On the platform bespectacled Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes squatted on his haunches in a circle of squatting Seminole Indians. Seminole squaws and papooses in bright beads and dresses were bunched around the platform. Loudspeakers allowed the spectators to overhear the powwow by which Secretary Ickes proposed to advance the Administration's policy of extending its New Deal to Indians. Simultaneously the 100-year war between the Seminoles and the U. S., begun by the raw deal of that first modern Democrat, President Andrew Jackson, was to be brought...
Last week in one of the upstairs dining rooms of the 75-year-old Down Town Association on Manhattan's narrow Pine Street occurred a unique powwow of some 50 persons interested in the future of a debt-ridden, six hundred million dollar railroad system...
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Every sensible Saskatchewanian knows that the tribal powwow of the prairie chicken is a myth. He has heard it from his grandfather, who heard it from his grandfather, who heard it from the Indians. The Indians believed it. Had not their ancestors long ago seen it with their own eyes and learned from it to do their own tribal dances? But hard-headed Saskatchewanians knew better. Up for re-election last month was Saskatchewan's Premier James Thomas Milton Anderson. Few days before election he returned to Regina, the capital, from a campaign swing through the sparsely settled northern...