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...President's order one Chili Fish, an Oklahoma Seminole, was last week given a one-day commission as chief of all that Indian nation. During that day Chief Chili Fish will sign Government papers relating to Seminole lands in Oklahoma, transact other tribal business, collect $10 in wages, $5 in expenses. When Florida's Seminoles heard about the appointment, they telegraphed President Hoover they would refuse to recognize Chili Fish's jurisdiction in their councils...
...Bonfils: "That [burial] has now been done for the benefit of the subscriber and of the advertiser, tending to create in our beloved section a better newspaper feeling and co-operation . . . making this a better and a more wholesome country in which to live, rear our families and transact our business. . . . These two papers are going to try to deserve the respect and friendship of each other...
...Montgomery Ward & Co. and Cudahy Packing Co. both asked for short wave channels to transact business between their branches over the country. Anderson, Clayton & Co., potent cotton brokers, asked for a channel between their Houston and Manhattan offices...
...more than 3,000 natives were assassinated because of simple suspicion of being "bandits." In Nicaragua the U. S. Government wish to get hold of certain rights in order to construct another transoceanic canal in the near future in detriment of the Nigaraguan freedom. A few mean politicians will transact with your Government and then the State Department sends soldiers to back the government headed by these politicians resulting from your influence. In consequence, a revolution starts, and then you call it a "bunch of bandits...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, hero of many hours, returned again to his rose-strewn path after a brief detour to transact private business in Washington and Manhattan. The path led him to Ottawa, Canada, at the head of a whizzing formation of twelve U. S. Army planes from Selfridge Field, near Detroit. He and the Spirit of St. Louis made a perfect landing to the huzzahs of a crowd assembled for Canada's Diamond Jubilee (TIME, July 4). One of his escort, Lieut. J. Thad Johnson, was less fortunate. Circling in a close triad formation while the plane of honor...