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Died. Charles Millard Pratt, 80, onetime (1899-1911) executive and director of the original Standard Oil Co. of which his father was cofounder, onetime president of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute; after a ten-year illness; in Glen Cove...
...code, seconds must try to effect a reconciliation satisfying to the honor of all parties. In the political duel which began month ago before the Senate Committee on Territories & Insular Affairs over the honor of the Virgin Islands, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings followed the ancient code. They joined the combat in support of their respective principals, Virgin Islands Governor Paul M. Pearson, accused of maladministration, and Virgin Islands Judge T. Webber Wilson, accused of sabotaging Governor Pearson's administration. Hardly had the seconds exchanged a round of vituperation when...
Maryland's lean, long-armed, young Senator Millard E. Tydings, chairman of the investigating committee, volunteered the opinion that the testimony showed nothing to reflect on Judge Wilson, but "it may reflect on some other people." At that Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes, superior and champion of Governor Pearson, blew up. At a press conference he stormed that "the hearing ought to bring forth just a few facts," raged that Judge Wilson was "bringing the administration of American justice into disrepute in the Islands'' and ought to be removed for "judicial misconduct." Then...
Meantime more trouble was brewing in Washington. There were only some 25 political plums to be picked in the Islands, but plenty of hungry Democrats wanted them. Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings quietly wangled a Virgin Islands job as government attorney for a Jewish constituent named Eli Baer. Island Police Director Michael J. Nolan shortly reported that CWA funds were being diverted to the purchase of refrigerator parts, the repair of Government House radios, the hiring of taxicabs for parades. At once Attorney Baer set out to investigate the administration of public funds in the Islands. He turned...
Dick Johnson and Mal Millard will entrain for Berkeley late this week to toss the javelin and hurl the discus for Harvard on June 19 and 20. Both men are in good form and should bring back a few credits for the Mikkola tradition...