Word: burlew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three weeks members of the Senate Public Lands Committee have been busily investigating Franklin Roosevelt's nomination of Ebert K. Burlew as First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Turned up in the process have been lurid stories of "secret police," embezzlement, telephone-tapping (TIME, Jan. 31). But though they kept at work just as busily last week, they turned up only one fact that was even faintly lurid: Harold Ickes has three expensive Government Packards (one sedan, two limousines...
...Burlew: "There was emergency. The Secretary required those cars...
...Burlew: "Well, the Administrator wanted the cars, and, after all, Senator...
Meanwhile Mr. Ickes, who has been irritated by the delay in approving Mr. Burlew, thought he had discovered who was egging the Senators on. Since 1935 Charles West, smart and sharp-nosed Brain Truster, has been doing odd jobs for President Roosevelt in Congressional cloakrooms. For a while he was on the payroll of the Farm Credit Administration, but for over two years he has held the title of Under Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Ickes hates to have anyone in his office who is not working for him. Mr. West has been at loggerheads with Mr. Ickes ever since...
...wonderful place is Interior, A temple of culture and rest, Where Ickes speaks only to Burlew, And no one at all speaks to West...