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Before he entered the Roosevelt Cabinet in 1933 as Secretary of the Interior, Harold Le Clair Ickes used to be known as the Lone Wolf of Chicago politics. Because lone wolves have trouble hunting with the pack. Secretary Ickes publicly snarled through his clean fangs at NRAdministrator Johnson, WPAdministrator Hopkins, onetime Housing Administrator Moffett, many another member of the Roosevelt pack. But, devoted as he was to the New Deal, Lone Wolf Ickes really meant to be helpful to the Administration in his own slow, stubborn...
Last week helpful Harold Ickes took time out for an attempt to smooth over a little diplomatic difficulty into which he had got the U. S. Last month, trying to back up the State Department's declaration that shipments of war materials to Italy were contrary to the spirit of the Neutrality Resolution, he had succeeded in giving the Press the clear-cut impression that as Oil Administrator he was opposed to shipments of oil to Italy (TIME, Dec. 2). This angered Italy, embarrassed the State Department, left the Administration out on a limb when the League of Nations...
Last autumn Producer Zanuck offered the Quintuplets' guardians $100,000 for their appearance in a picture, began negotiating in competition with Mary Pickford, who wanted them for United Artists, and Harold Lloyd who wanted them for The Milky Way. Before anything was settled, last October Mr. Zanuck's staff was fussing with love interest, conflict, a villain for their story. Last month Zanuck signed up the Quintuplets, was ready to go to work on The Country Doctor with the role of Dr. Dafoe played by Jean Hersholt. Incidents during the week's shooting which...
...good performances last year and are expected to be out performing for the team again include from the class of '37 Dunbar Carpenter, Charles S. Rogers and Robert H. Shaw. The Sophomore class has Frederick S. Bigelow, Peter T. Brooks, David Emerson, Henry W. Locke, Thomas Motley 2d, and Harold T. White. William F. Loomis '36 is also expected to compete again...
Other members of the commission will be Leonard D. White, of Washington, D. C., United States Civil Service Commissioner; William B. Murno, of Pasadena, California, professor of History and Government at the California Institute of Technology; Wallace B. Donham '98, Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration; Harold H. Burbank, professor of Political Economy; and Morris B. Latuble, professor of Government, who will serve as secretary of the commission...