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...Secretary Ickes and Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier were as solemn as the Indians. Just as cameras were about to record the event for posterity a horrified Ickes press-agent spied, clinging to one Indian's ancestral costume, what seemed to be a thoroughly anachronistic price tag. In a flurry of embarrassment the chieftain's tag was ripped off while Secretary Ickes, covering up, seized a pen and hurriedly squiggled his signature to the constitution...
...editor of the Washington Post, which had reported the "price tag'' incident at the signing ceremony, went last week a solemn letter of reproach. "These costumes," it read in part, "are hereditary. That worn by Chief Charlo was inherited by him from his grandfather, Chief Little Claw, who as chief of all the Flatheads signed the Treaty of 1855. The ermine tails on this costume signified the rank of Chief Little Claw. Those worn by Sub-chief Bear Track were left to him according to the Indian custom of giving things away at time of death. . . . The plain...
Super-bromicidal tag known...
Last week in the fifth round of its long and litigious effort to tag Aluminum Co. of America as a monopoly, Baush Machine Tool Co. received a sharp and sudden jolt. Most aluminum fabricators can use scrap but the chemistry of the Baush product requires pure ingot aluminum, which the company has to buy abroad (over a 4¢ per Ib. tariff) or from Aluminum Co. of America, sole domestic source. The Baush management regards Aluminum as an unfair enterprise. Aluminum's opinion of Baush was summed up by an Aluminum lawyer who, noting the company's succession of deficits, remarked...
...Yellow tags, tied indiscriminately to the steering wheels of all vehicles which come to rest for more than a few minutes in this forbidden territory, are the cause of this outburtst. They bear the legend "This car is parked in violation of the Harvard University Parking Regulations. If not removed from University property by---- the University will, if it sees fit, have this car towed to a garage and stored at the owner's expense and risk." A terse message, written in pencil on the reverse side of the tag, reads: "See Mr. Apted, Lehman Hall...