Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed by idealistic Chief Deputy Administrator Aubrey Willis Williams who also is chief of the National Youth Administration. As a new Department of the Government, WPA would come in full-fledged and ramified to a degree rivaling even what Herbert Hoover made of Commerce, what lazy thinking made of Interior, for years the great catch-all department. Head of it would be a lanky, cadaverous Cabinet officer of 48, unlike any who ever sat at the big table in the White House...
...main ports, except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken four months after the outbreak at Peking; Nanking, capital of China, fell one month later. Chinese officials fled Nanking, designated Chunking, far in the interior, as the seat of their Government and set up Hankow as their de facto capital. Last week, Japanese warships were within 135 miles of this Yangtze River city and most ob servers agreed that it would be in Japanese hands before autumn frosts...
Capture of populous, prosperous Hankow will not mean the end of the war for China. Already unimportant Government bureaus have been moved upriver to Chungking and at Hankow the Foreign, Finance and Industry Ministries are poised to precede Chiang Kai-shek's military headquarters to the interior city of Kweiyang, slated as the next Chinese de facto capital...
...watch the 3,000,000 foreigners in France a special mobile police of 40 chiefs, 215 detective inspectors was recently formed to reinforce the famed Deuxieme Bureau of the War Ministry, watchdog of French official secrets. Also the Minister of the Interior was empowered to expel or fix the residence of any foreigners. By decree last week Premier Edouard Daladier transferred espionage trials from civil tribunals to military and naval courts. The military law prescribes death for espionage; hence spies caught in the service of a foreign power, gathering information on inventions, manufactures, industrial methods, maps, documents or military plans...
...Francisco, Roy Gardner, imaginative convict just released from Alcatraz, told how two Alcatraz lifers planned to have Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes kidnapped and held until President Roosevelt ordered their release from prison. The plan failed, said Convict Gardner, because Prisoner Al Capone had refused to put up $10,000 pay for the kidnapper. Snorted Capone: "President Roosevelt wouldn't free anybody if his whole family was snatched...