Word: mckaye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations to TIME Aug. 23 on the wonderful cover story on Secretary McKay. It's about time the sprawling Interior Department was brought to public attention and that its new leader received a pat on the back...
Must you support Doug McKay with such complete single-mindedness? Must you always run down the recent 20-year Democratic Administration ? . . . We are trying to save the last true and only rain forest in the U.S., in the lower Hoh and Quinault River valleys, from the woodsman's ax. (It will be lost if reapportionment of the Olympic National Park is allowed.) . . . Being a young and never-say-die Democrat, I go along wholeheartedly with Doug McKay's ideas concerning public power [but] there are some lands which should be held by the Government for the benefit...
...honor to TIME for the fine . . . article . . . Most of all, you have pictured a real homespun American with the rare quality of good horse sense. It is really refreshing to know we have a man like Secretary McKay in Government service . . . Such a contrast to the goggle-eyed intellectuals we have had to bear with. Sort of gives a body hope again that our country may yet return to the good old private-enterprise system that made America great...
...McKay is credited with having told Alaskans off. Aside from the fact that no one likes to be told that he is not a gentleman, what McKay did was to write off the Republican Party in the Territory in the coming fall elections . . . Stateside, McKay may be a great man, but his treatment of Alaskan statehood and his recent visit here left a great deal to be desired...
...GOLD ever mined in California is not worth a single year's rainfall," said California's onetime Governor Earl Warren, now U.S. Chief Justice. To many Westerners the Federal Government's chief reason for existence is to provide water. The Government, in this instance, means Secretary McKay's Interior Department, which is responsible for reclamation...