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That tabulation was published in booklet form by Collier's Weekly primarily as self-advertising. Unlike most pieces of magazine promotion, it had little to say about Collier's, devoted itself almost exclusively to simple charts of Congressional votes, arranged by states, on 22 prime measures ranging from the Emergency Banking Act (March 1933) to the Labor Dispute Act (June 1934). Collier's staff began the project two months ago, only to discover that the ground had already been ably covered by Congressional Intelligence, Inc, a Washington reporting agency in the latter's volume, Factual History...
DEFY THE FOUL FIEND-John Collier-Knopf...
...Shakespeare (''Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend"&151; King Lear), Author John Collier has written a robust and racy novel of which Henry Fielding would have been proud. Readers of Defy the Foul Fiend may look forward to continuous entertainment of a high order, will close the book with the feeling that they have added a first-rate volume to their library of 20th Century English letters. No literary left-winger but a traditionalist, Author Collier adds his bit to the quietly...
...meantime last week Mr. Hearst. Son John, Miss Davies, William Collier Jr. and Dorothy Mackaiil arrived in London after a leisurely trip through Spain. Correspondents flocked about Miss Davies, quizzed her about her portrait. Said she: "I cannot understand what it all means. So far as I know the people running the show asked that my portrait be sent...
Half a century ago the 390,000 Indians in the U. S. owned 157,000,000 acres of land. Today 330,000 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...