Word: collier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office in the Department of the Interior, stoop-shouldered, intense little John Collier shuffled through a neat stack of papers, stopped occasionally to stare at a corncob pipe in an empty water glass on his desk. In his baggy old long-sleeved green sweater, he looked like a country storekeeper closing out the week's accounts. Actually, he was closing out twelve years with the Government...
...Commissioner of Indian Affairs since 1933, John Collier has continued to be just what he was before he became a public official: the best friend the American Indian ever had. As social worker and Government man, John Collier has indignantly stood out against the prevailing U.S. opinion that the Indians are not only shiftless ne'er-do-wells but also a decadent, dying race. A visit to the Pueblos in New Mexico in 1920 ("The first time I ever came face to face with a Utopia") made him decide to fight for the Indian's right to keep...
...John Collier became executive secretary of the American Indian Defense Association in 1923 and promptly tackled Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, who was pushing hard for legislation to make the Indians Christians and also to open all of their lands to squatters. Fall's laws never passed, and Collier hoped for better times under President Herbert Hoover. But in John Collier's bitter summary, "Hoover didn't give a damn about the Indians either." New Deal for Redskins. By the time the New Deal had come to Washington, Collier was the No.11...
They were largely paupers. Collier determined to make the Indians mainly self-governing and selfsupporting, to go back a little way to their old culture and the better features of their own kind of community life...
...colleges might be severe indeed." (Other educators have expressed fears. President Robert Maynard Hutchins, of the University of Chicago, has warned of "educational hoboes"--veterans, unable to get jobs, who will be offered a chance to live at Government expense simply by going to school. In an article in Collier's magazine. Hutchins said, "Educational institutions, as the big-time football racket shows cannot resist money." "The GI Bill of Rights gives them a chance to get more money than they have ever dreamed of . . . They will not want to keep out un-qualified veterans; they will not want...