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Last week President Roosevelt received another complaint about his Secretary of the Interior, this time from Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. The point at issue was Mr. Ickes' antipolitical administration of the Virgin Islands. Secretary Ickes had insisted that Paul Martin Pearson, sexagenarian Chautauqua organizer appointed by Herbert Hoover...
¶President Roosevelt gave a formal reception for the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court. Only four attended: Messrs. Hughes, Butler, Roberts, Stone. Very much on hand was Attorney General Cummings, sitting on a table, swinging his legs, laughing, chatting in high good humor to show that he was...
If it did nothing else, the Old Deal provided the New Deal with a magnificent set of government buildings in Washington. Last June Postmaster General Farley moved into his monumental new Post Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue and found it good. Last October Attorney General Cummings moved into his monumental...
¶ The price of the Government's gold bonds was bid up in heavy trading. Liberty 3½s reached 105.3, a record high. The stocks of railroads and other corporations which might have to pay $1,690 on $1,000 bonds slumped heavily. Trust companies feared they might...
Tight spot. Many an observer regarded the present make-up of the Supreme Court as fortunate, for today, when the U. S. is swayed by a politically powerful liberal movement, the Court is dominated neither by conservatives who would block all attempts at change, nor by liberals who would put...