Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When First Assistant Secretary of the Interior Theodore Walters died last November, eleven Western Senators suggested to President Roosevelt that someone from the West be nominated to succeed him. Mr. Roosevelt nominated instead Mr. Ebert K. Burlew. Few courtiers can stay in favor through more than one dynasty, but Mr. Burlew, administrative assistant to the last four Secretaries of the Interior in a row, was a particular favorite of Republican Hubert Work, is still a particular favorite of New Dealer Harold Ickes. Under Mr. Ickes he has been virtually manager of the Interior Department. He has been constantly embroiled with...
Last month President Roosevelt sent his nomination to the Senate. Vexed, the eleven Western Senators demanded public hearings before the Public Lands Committee. Hearings on Mr. Burlew meant hearings on the Interior Department, and Senators who are not fond of uppity Mr. Ickes have been itching to investigate that Department. Members of the Public Lands Committee cocked their cigars at a truculent angle and began to ask Mr. Burlew questions. Within two days they had turned up a story of the sort that investigating committees dream...
Dreamer. Reno Stitely earned $2.300 a year as chief voucher clerk in the National Park Service of the Interior Department. One day in 1934 he had an inspiration. He created in his own imagination a whole CCC camp in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. The Government had never dreamed of Mr. Stitely's camp but he gave it an imaginary supervisor and eight imaginary foremen. Then he made out payroll vouchers and sent them to the War Department, which pays all National Park Service employes who do conservation work. Unfortunately, he could not make up imaginary CCC boys...
...hull in water a mile deep and alive with sharks. One was caught nearby a few days later with a man's bones in his belly. Said Avocet's Chief Boatswain Bogan: "Bits of wood and paper covered the sea. . . . They seemed to be fragments from the interior of the plane. All the pieces were from one to six inches square. We found nothing larger than that...
...copies in the U. S., 50,000 in England, has been a best-seller in South Africa. But now no Cape Town bookseller has a copy. After it had been damned as an insult to Boer heroes, "filthy," discourteous, inaccurate, misleading to foreign readers, Minister of the Interior Stuttaford banned the book with a ruling that stopped importation of new copies. Claiming that the ban was political, with no legal excuse given, the English publishers announced: "The Government feared the loss in the forthcoming elections of a number of Dutch votes. . . ." Said Minister Stuttaford: "Personally I would recommend the book...