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...Worthless." Secretary Wilbur's first step was to refuse to accept Field Chief Kelley's resignation and, instead, to suspend him. Mr. Kelley, slight, grey-haired, softspoken, has been a Federal employe for 25 years. Secretary Wilbur denounced his charges as "reckless and false," called him a "clerk." While Field Chief Kelley talked only of oil land sales, Secretary Wilbur confused the issue by talking chiefly of oil leases, none of which have been granted under the Hoover conservation policy. As to sales he said: "These oil shale lands aren't worth anything now. You couldn't sell a strip...
...Sacred Flame of Belgium seemed to His Majesty so thoroughly polluted that he decreed a national ceremony for its purification. Present to assist grave, scandalized King Albert last week were petite intellectual Queen Elizabeth, tousle-headed, schoolboyish Crown Prince Leopold, his svelt, sophisticated wife Crown Princess Astrid,* and his softspoken, softer-eyed sister Princess Marie José (Jan. 8, 1930, was announced last week as the day she will wed Italy's mincing-mannered but courageous Crown Prince Umberto [TIME...
...Atlanta's Warden John W. Snook "because of utter want of administrative ability" (TIME, March 25). Out went Snook, in came A. C. Aderholdt, who first worked for Atlanta prison as a construction gang foreman in 1906, later as prison guard, as record clerk. Now, as warden, he is softspoken, reticent, diligently eludes publicity. But Mrs. Willebrandt, busily though she snooped, got nothing done about cattle-herding in the Federal prisons...
When the odious "subcommittee" ghost had been pretty well laid, it was revealed that for almost a week previously John Pierpont Morgan had been sitting in on an informal group chairmanned by Baron Revelstoke, the softspoken, intensely aristocratic tycoon who heads the great British banking firm of Baring Brothers...
...last, softspoken, pale, bloodless, Felix Dzerzhinsky found that he had bled the enemies of Bolshevism whiter than his own prison-bleached forehead. He became convinced that the "Cheka" was no longer needed, saw to it that several of his incurably bloodthirsty agents were quietly murdered, "for the ultimate good and safety of the state," and focused his own sleepless energies on the economic problems of Soviet government...