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One of the last of the top-drawer bright young men of the New Deal packed up last week. Able, jug-eared Abe Fortas, 33, quiet No. i man to noisy Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, had asked the Army to take him in.
Fortas tried once before to join the Army, to chuck his many jobs as Under Secretary (guiding Ickes' power policy, handling U.S. insular possessions, helping supervise the coal industry, tussling with petroleum reserves). President Roosevelt had refused to accept his resignation, wrote: "You can best serve your country by...
>Asked Congress to amend the organic act of Puerto Rico to permit that impoverished island to elect its own Governor, revealed that he had set up an advisory committee of eight-four Americans, four Puerto Ricans. Head of the committee: Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, for whom Under...
The spot left by 63-year-old Jack Dempsey was not vacant long. Into it the President lifted smart, big-eared, young (32) Abe Fortas, Memphis-born director of the Interior Department's power division. For Mr. Fortas it was a reward: a Yale Law School graduate, he has...
Simple as ABC is the technique of the act: that a soft-coal producer must subscribe to the code and its minimum prices or pay an admittedly ruinous tax of 19½% on the sale price of every ton. Complicated as relativity is its minimum price structure. For each producer...