Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interior the Bureau of Insular Affairs (War) for consolidation with the Division of Territories and Island Possessions; Bureau of Fisheries (Commerce) and Bureau of Biological Survey (Agriculture), to lump conservation agencies...
Just a year ago, Harold LeClair Ickes. then 64, slipped away from Washington, sailed to Ireland and there, in Dublin, made screaming headlines for London papers by marrying titian-haired Jane Dahlman, 25, of Milwaukee. Last week at a press conference the press-baiting Secretary of the Interior blushed handsomely when asked if Washington gossip was true, that he was once more to become a father (in September).* Replied forthright Mr. Ickes: "I have hopes. It's great to be in public life, isn't it? ... What we need is a little more liberty from the press...
...Security Agency would take in the now independent Social Security Board, National Youth Administration (now part of WPA), Civilian Conservation Corps (independent), also the old U. S. Employment Service and Office of Education (now in the Departments of Labor and Interior, respectively) and the Public Health Service (from the Treasury...
...Works Agency would merge Works Progress Administration and Public Works Administration (both independent), the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Public Roads, the public buildings branches of the Treasury's Procurement Division and of the National Park Service (now Interior) ; also the U. S. Housing Authority (Interior...
Tall, curly-haired John Mason Brown (Post) is, at 38, the youngest of the newspaper critics. Probably the ablest all-round of the lot, he combines journalistic dash ("Most Hamlets look like the original interior decorator") with analytical skill. With Anderson, he has the highest critical boiling point; brought in a plausible minority report on Abe Lincoln in Illinois. He lectures far & wide, has led Variety's boxscore for best-guessing hits and flops five times in the last nine years...