Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outdone by Secretary Hull, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes last week also found means to rebuke Nazi Germany, also presumably with Presidential approval. Last month, the State Department approved shipment of 2,000,000 cu. ft. of helium gas, on which the U. S. has a virtual monopoly, for commercial use in German Zeppelins. In Washington, Secretary Ickes, charged with exacting a German guarantee that the gas would be used only for peaceful purposes, let it be known that he was holding up shipment because he could find no way of drawing up a sufficiently watertight contract...
...that Floor Leader Alben Barkley promptly betrayed the fact that his alarm outweighed his satisfaction by leaving himself appallingly wide open to a rude jibe from Idaho's Borah. To Mr. Borah's suggestion that the President favored shifting the Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department, perturbed Leader Barkley indignantly cried...
...Association includes only 253 of the 8,000 living Howard alumni, that it employs tactics "almost equivalent to gangsterism." His answer to the charges: 1) He had asked Dean Slowe to suggest an acting dean, sent her a note hoping she would soon be back; 2) Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes had found "no implication of dishonesty" in the handling of PWA money or PWA lumber; 3) Laboratory Assistant Thompson had failed to produce evidence of a seduction...
...luncheon, dignified, firm Dr. Schuschnigg stood up as best he could for Austria's rights, was obliged to accept, and later carried out to the letter, a hard bargain which nonetheless left Austria fully sovereign. Notably he was forced to take into the Austrian Cabinet as Minister of Interior an Austrian Nazi, Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart...
Snip, Snip. The terrible crises which have been frequent in the lesser European countries since the War have bred statesmen with tough nerves. On the day Austria was being invaded, out to an orchard went Austrian Nazi Minister of Interior Dr. Seyss-Inquart, incipient Chancellor...