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...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 and, in general, impose upon them added responsibility for their own welfare. Solemnly the Indian chiefs listened to Commissioner Collier. Some rejoiced...
...distinction of being one of the few French Deputies ever unseated for bribery by his legislative peers. Later he was discreetly elected Senator. Lately he reached the U. S. from Asia on a tour around the world. Paris chuckled last week at news that "Momo," pulling a solemn face, had visited the U. S. Senate, steered by California's Hiram Johnson who guided his flaccid right hand into the rough-textured paw of Vice President John Garner. Paris was not surprised that "Momo," before reaching Washington, had visited the Chicago Century of Progress and care fully inspected that show...
...Today, beneath these immemorial column, we are met together in solemn conclave, for a purpose, whether Republican or Democrat, Capitalist or Agriculturalist, Eliotite or Dunsterian, Northern or Amateur, History and Lit., or Physics, Black man or White man, Eastern or Western, or even mid-western, we are united in a cause...
...After solemn meetings, the committee last week published its report: acquittal of Sir Samuel and Lord Derby...
...Dallas), six Continental Congressmen, 31 U. S. Senators, 48 U. S. Representatives, 21 State Governors, four U. S. Cabinet members, seven U. S. and State Supreme Court Justices. That took 43 years. But by 1944 President Dodds and the rest of the country should know whether Princeton's solemn undergraduates of 1934 really mean business...