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...Administration, but for over two years he has held the title of Under Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Ickes hates to have anyone in his office who is not working for him. Mr. West has been at loggerheads with Mr. Ickes ever since he parked his car in the portico of the old Interior building in a space reserved for Mr. Ickes' Packards. But he is a Presidential appointee and cannot be removed. Last week Mr. Ickes did the next best thing. He removed James Rohrer, Mr. West's brother-in-law and administrative assistant, transferred his secretary...
After lean years come fat years. This year the land is particularly fat with corn and cotton. Last week, therefore, the corn surplus was dumped squarely on the White House portico. Heading a delegation of midwest farm leaders, President Edward A. O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation informed President Roosevelt that Government corn loans of 60?-per-bu. were imperative. Said Farmer O'Neal: "The condition of farm crop prices is one reason for the stockmarket being so jittery." Both the talk of corn and the talk of jitters were advance publicity for the belated refitting...
They drove to the White House behind a troop of cavalry and were welcomed by President & Mrs. Roosevelt in the White House portico. They had an official reception in the Blue Room, tea in the Red Room, an unofficial dinner...
...Passed a bill that provides for a 84,000,000 face-lifting operation on the Capitol. To achieve architectural symmetry and uniformity of construction, the bill proposes to move the east fagade with its famed portico forward from 12 to 32 ft. and reface the white painted sandstone with white marble to match the Senate and House wings. The main section of the building between the two wings, although it has been altered, is virtually all that remains of the Capitol as it was planned in 1793. Since the great cast-iron dome was built in the 1850s to replace...
Died- Vivian Jackson, 30, rich University of London astrophysicist and amateur steeplechaser engaged to three-times-divorced Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, 48; of injuries received when the sleigh in which they were riding crashed into a hotel portico, pitched him into a pillar; in Samaden, Switzerland...