Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first: the major threat to his Administration which Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities seemed to be rapidly becoming. Mr. Dies put out last week a report which loudly attacked Secretary of Labor Perkins for "unbelievable laxity" in handling alien agitators, Secretary of the Interior Ickes for baiting the Committee, Secretary of Commerce Hopkins for harboring Communists in WPA. Mr. Dies demanded $150,000 to continue his investigation, and the President learned that many another Congressman's mail was filled with warnings that Mr. Dies's request must not be refused...
...hell" with the furious but futile efforts of Reformer Harold L. Ickes to clean up Chicago politics. A reformer himself, Editor Straus also raised hell with other local celebrities like Al Capone. Later he went to Washington as a Hearst correspondent and in June 1933, when Secretary of the Interior Ickes wanted a "director of information" (i. e., head pressagent) for Interior and PWA, he chose hell-raising Mike Straus. Since then the nation has heard plenty from him about Honest Harold Ickes...
Pressagent Straus runs his crew of ex-newsmen in PWA-Interior like a well-organized city staff, spurs them to dig up the kind of feature stories that newspapers are glad to get. Last week Mike Straus was pleased as punch over his latest job of pressagentry. From the slick, birch-lined radio studio atop the new Interior Building-only studio owned by any Government department-Mr. Ickes and assorted "Voices," hoofbeats, Indian drums, and aides broadcast a dramatization of Interior's 1938 report. Title of script was "My Dear Mr. President." Excerpt...
...Have a Free Press? (Thurs. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Blue) debated by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Publisher Frank E. Gannett before America's Town Meeting...
Although tending to be over-melodramatic in presentation, "Drums," an English film now at the University, nevertheless unfolds an engrossing tale of mutiny and conspiracy among the natives of northwest India. Filmed entirely in technicolor, the picture contains splendid interior shots of a traditional Mohammedan feast, as well as magnificent panoramic views of rugged mountain gorges. One might well protest, however, against the Buckingham Palace splendor of the supposedly primitive British army outposts, strangely out of harmony with the rude country around the Khyber Pass...