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...made his attitude even clearer. Leaving Congress to struggle along in Washington, he boarded a train for Florida, there to embark on a week's fishing trip in the Caribbean. In the party that boarded the Potomac at Miami were WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, to help the President evolve a plan for modernizing anti-trust legislation...
...movie is reputed to have been made with great care, and several months were required to take scenes in the wilds of the interior and to transport the pictures over the Andes...
...Year Puerto Rico nominates Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, a liberal-minded statesman, an able administrator, and a very good friend of Puerto Rico...
Bearded French Minister of Interior Marx Dormoy had double details of steel-helmeted, rifle-equipped Gardes Mobiles posted at the entrances to key Cabinet ministries, including his own. Their orders: "After 9 p. m. shoot to kill anyone who, after being challenged twice, attempts to enter without showing his special pass or giving the password." Under these elaborate precautions nobody was shot...
...Japanese War? U. S. Protestant churches spend nearly $4,000,000 a year for their Chinese missions, have many more millions invested in their 252 hospitals, their 21 colleges and universities. Of the missionaries who run such institutions, fully 95% have declined to leave China, because those in the interior have lived for years with the natives; because many are doing hospital work in war areas. This is true also of Methodists who have 500 missionaries in China and spend some $500,000 a year on missions...