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Graft? The Department of the Interior has never quite lived down the bad name Albert Bacon Fall gave it as a result of the oil scandals a decade ago. When honest Harold Ickes took office, he promised the country he would not be "the black sheep" of the Cabinet. Yet, like everyone else, he knows perfectly well that three billion Federal dollars cannot be poured out of the Treasury without some of it spilling over improperly. Day & night he reiterates his determination to keep graft out of his Public Works Administration. He can trust himself and his immediate aides...
...grins gauntly from the front door of his Washington home. Warren Gamaliel Harding, onetime bandsman of Marion, Ohio, campaigning with a French horn, shakes hands with lodge brothers in pretentious uniforms. The white sheets and the fiery crosses of the Ku Klux Klan. The Harding inauguration. Oil derricks. Albert Bacon Fall. The Harding funeral train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. Automobiles being made. Superfluous...
President Roosevelt likes scrambled eggs, codfish balls, fried liver, seafoods. He does not care for sweets, seldom eats desserts. But he is not finicky about his food. He eats some of whatever may be on the table. For breakfast he regularly has two eggs, three rashers of bacon, two slices of toast, orange juice. On his sedentary boating vacation, he ate quantities of baked beans, gained 7 Ib. (174 Ib. to 181 Ib.). When he returned to Washington, looking fit as a bull fiddle, he declared last week he was going to lose that excess weight at once...
...Less" at his first White House breakfast meant one strip of bacon instead of three. The rest of his usual breakfast dishes he ate with relish and apparent forgetfulness of his reducing regime...
Among the invited guests, in addition to the members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, and the recipients of honorary degrees, were Governor Joseph B. Ely, Lieutenant-Governor Gaspar G. Bacon '08, Mayor R. M. Russel '16, of Cambridge, and Acting Mayor Joseph McGrath, of Boston. Others present included the Hon. Robert Luce '82, representative in Congress from the ninth district; Judge J. M. Morton, Jr. '91, of the United States First Circuit Court, and president of the Harvard Alumni Association; and Judge W. C. Wait '82, of the Massachusetts Supreme Court...