Word: tribes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...History Tricked by Literary Focality? Perhaps George F. Babbitt of Zenith had it coming to him. He was an enormously ignorant, ineffectual, and complacent man. His tribe of hemen, go-getters and parasites upon public cupidity and gullibility deserved to be pilloried by Sinclair Lewis. But his more talented cousins-the big business man, the financier, the military leader, the engineer, the scientist, the inventor -have a more genuine grievance against the world. They have erected the edifice of modern civilization, they are responsible for Progress with a capital P, but fame and immortality go to the artists. Because they...
...company contended that the land involved in the leases was the property of individuals in the Creek tribe, and that, if the Indians decided that the Roxana Company was acceptable to them, the Secretary of the Interior had no authority to disapprove the deals. Secretary Fall replied that all Indian affairs are under the control of the Department of the Interior, and that therefore his disapproval was valid...
...immediately made. The American Indian Defense Society in Manhattan asserted that if the program is carried out, the Indians will be compelled to abandon traditions as old as their race, and will be denied freedom in worshiping the gods of their ancestors. The other protest came from the Yakimo tribe in the State of Washington. Its chief in announcing the usual spring dances declared: " You say, ' Farm as the white man does' and ' Save your money as the white man does.' . . . When you stop the white man from dancing we may also stop dancing...
UTAH: The arrest and detention of two Piute Indian sheep stealers was enough to send the whole tribe of 50 or 60 Indians on the warpath. They cut the telephone and telegraph wires to the town of Blanding and did some sniping without wounding any one. When a posse set out after them, they hid in the " Dark Tank " country. Two young Indians are reported killed, one of them known as Cowberry Charlie's boy. A reward of $100 is offered for the capture, dead or alive, of Chief Old Posey, head of the Piutes...
Censors, vigilance societies, and the whole tribe of guardians of the public mind, are well aware that print is their arch-enemy. Against the watchful custodians of the mails, social heresy or political immorality has little chance. The rostrum, too, is carefully safeguarded, as New York learned last year when it tried to hear such public speakers as Mrs. Sanger and Mr. Zero. But there is another ulcer at the heart of the body politic which was only recently discovered. That disease is Art: the diagnosticians are the American Legion and the American Defense Society...