Word: interior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Julius Albert Krug was called in to replace terrible-tempered Harold Ickes as Secretary of the Interior, there seemed no limits to the glistening future of the Wisconsin wonder boy. Behind him was an impressive record of public service as a member of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, manager of TVA's power operations, head of the War Production Board. At 38, he was the youngest officer in the Cabinet, a hard-driving New Dealer who quickly mastered Interior's operations and spent at least half of his time in the field, brushing up on department problems...
...afternoon last week the end finally came; the surprise was not that it came, but how it came. An assistant telephoned top Interior officials: "The Secretary has asked me to tell you he has resigned." Before Harry Truman got Krug's personal letter of resignation, he had already read Krug's 13-word statement to reporters: "I am leaving. I have been wanting to leave for a long time...
Last week, Interior Minister Vaclav Nosek flatly declared that the reservation in the loyalty oath was unacceptable. He announced furthermore that, beginning next year, church marriages will have no legal standing in Czechoslovakia; only civil marriage will be officially recognized. The new marriage decree also abolishes the posting of marriage banns. Nosek justified the decree by citing the case of a priest who had refused to marry a couple because they were Communists. Said Nosek: "Of course, he was arrested...
...decision practically touches not only on civil effects, but rather in reality leads to the erroneous consideration that the ties are broken and new ties are valid and binding . . ." In this respect, he added, "your duty is noticeably lighter in Italy, where divorce (the cause of so many interior conflicts for the judge who must enforce the law) does not exist...
...Mawgmi mine closed down in June, the teak sawmills in July. Gem prospecting has almost stopped, and Burma is now reduced to importing instead of exporting oil. Rebel forays on transportation lines have forced the Burmese to fly oil to the interior, where the price has risen to $6.30 a gallon. Rice exports have tobogganed, too. Burma exported about 3,000,000 tons of rice before the war. This year's exports will be less than 1,000,000. Next year the government hopes to have 730,000 tons for export, but many believe the figure will be lower...