Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week before the funeral Governor Browning had a telephone call from Charles West, Under Secretary of the Interior who runs many of Franklin Roosevelt's errands at the Capitol. Mr. West gave him to understand that the President wanted to see him right away before he appointed a new Senator. Governor Browning was going to Washington anyhow to attend a conference of Southern Governors and utilities commissioners. When he shook off the crowd of politicians at the funeral and boarded his train East, whom should he find but one of the mourners. Representative Samuel D. McReynolds of Chattanooga...
First U. S. kindergarten was started in 1856 in Watertown, Wis. by Mrs. Carl Schurz, wife of the famed Thuringian revolutionary who became Lincoln's Minister to Spain, Hayes's Secretary of the Interior and the first German-born citizen to sit in the U. S. Senate.* Under such auspices the kindergarten soon attracted philanthropists. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph, opened one for the children in her husband's mining community at Lead, S. Dak. and financed the Parent-Teachers' Association mainly to promote the kindergarten movement...
Another speaker at the session. Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West, told a story of a political appointee whose negligence caused a nitrate explosion. Questioned on the witness stand about his knowledge of ex- plosives, this man tried to bluff his way out, finally admitted that all he knew about nitrates was that they were cheaper than day rates...
...Director, Ward Shepard, has worked for the departments of Agriculture and the Interior, besides studying scientific forestry in Germany. He was imported to Harvard last May on a leave of absence from his present appointment as Special Adviser to the Chief of the Indian Service...
Speakers at the meeting include Mayor LaGuardia and Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West. According to the telegram sent by the League to President Conant, the sponsors are working "to develop constructive interest in public service...