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...With much reluctance," because it exceeded by $10,000,000 the Budget Bureau's $4,500,000 item for vocational education, the President signed a bill, appropriating $132,732,000 to the Interior Department for the fiscal year...
Last week they found they were wrong. Nazi Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick came out with a decree ordering all Germans to register themselves as: 1) members of a Church (Catholics, Protestants, Old Catholics); 2) believers in God; 3) nonbelievers, or those with no religion...
...course of signing a $132,732,000 supply bill for the Department of the Interior, the President took note of a provision allotting the maximum $14,483,000 appropriation authorized for Federal aid to vocational education under the George-Deen Act passed in June 1936. This was 10,000,000 more than the President recommended in his budget message. It was also contrary to the recommendations of a special advisory committee headed by University of Chicago's Floyd Wesley Reeves, which the President appointed in September to sift pending educational legislation...
...last ignominy. Hadn't the President plugged for consolidation of independent agencies as part of his Reorganization Plan? Yes, thought the Senate, and placed Bob Wagner's potent, three-man U. S. Housing Authority not in a separate agency but under the thumb of Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Thus altered, Bob Wagner's Housing Bill, which now looked as though it would never provide houses for any New Yorkers, was tossed into the lap of the House...
...wide enough for four lines of traffic, durable enough to withstand big rains, which every summer since the days of Pharaoh have made Ethiopia a 100% impassable sea of mud. A second road 50 mi. long was to link Debarech in the country's deep interior and Gondar, an important town 25 mi. north of vital Lake Tana, which empties its waters into the Blue Nile, feeds British irrigation works in the Sudan...