Word: burlew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When First Assistant Secretary of the Interior Theodore Walters died last November, eleven Western Senators suggested to President Roosevelt that someone from the West be nominated to succeed him. Mr. Roosevelt nominated instead Mr. Ebert K. Burlew. Few courtiers can stay in favor through more than one dynasty, but Mr. Burlew, administrative assistant to the last four Secretaries of the Interior in a row, was a particular favorite of Republican Hubert Work, is still a particular favorite of New Dealer Harold Ickes. Under Mr. Ickes he has been virtually manager of the Interior Department. He has been constantly embroiled with...
Last month President Roosevelt sent his nomination to the Senate. Vexed, the eleven Western Senators demanded public hearings before the Public Lands Committee. Hearings on Mr. Burlew meant hearings on the Interior Department, and Senators who are not fond of uppity Mr. Ickes have been itching to investigate that Department. Members of the Public Lands Committee cocked their cigars at a truculent angle and began to ask Mr. Burlew questions. Within two days they had turned up a story of the sort that investigating committees dream...
...extraordinary . . . very serious matter . . . I can't see how. . . ." The reason the imaginary employes were not discovered sooner, according to Interior Department investigators, was that the Park Service, short of real employes, was several months behind in its books. The dream camp was finally found, Mr. Burlew revealed modestly, when Reno Stitely, grown devil-may-care, put his imaginary men on actual rolls paid by the Interior Department. The special investigators who finally caught Reno Stitely told the committee that a proper audit had never been made of the Park Service and the immense Emergency Conservation Work funds...