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Meanwhile, as foreign correspondents with the White Army reported that they could see the twinkling lights of Madrid at night, the Government forces defending the capital suddenly received a new commander-in-chief last week, 60-year-old General Sebastian Pozas Perea. This onetime Minister of the Interior is a capable officer and expert tactician who has long been submerged in the political squabbles of Spain's Leftist Government. With his predecessor, General Jose Asenseo, booted upstairs to Undersecretary of War, General Pozas moved mountains to get a sense of discipline and a few rudiments of drill into...
...Novelist Margaret Mitchell's best-selling Gone With the Wind, Harry Slattery, South Carolina-born personal assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, was outraged to read of an offensive poor white named Tom Slattery, considered suing for libel. Promptly Novelist Mitchell announced she had named her Georgia farmer Slattery "purely by chance, intending no malice," sent Mr. Slattery an autographed copy of her book. Said he, appeased: "A charming, amusing, vivid young woman...
...Davies and Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies; Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Secretary Wallace; Edward A. O'Neal of the Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Winant of the Social Security Board; Charles Gay of the New York Stock Exchange; Major General John F. O'Ryan; Under Secretary of the Interior Charles West; Mayor LaGuardia and Bishop Francis J. McConnell of New York City. Among them too was Alpha R. Whiton, Democratic chairman of Putnam County who by personal request is making an attempt to rid the Squire of Hyde Park of an old grievance-the indignity of being a constituent...
Acquitted at Woburn, Mass, last month of the charge of driving while under the influence of liquor (TIME, Aug. 24). ir Boston Robert Ickes, adopted son of the Secretary of the Interior, Harold Le Clair Ickes, ran his coupe into another automobile, injuring five...
...grand scale. Congress appropriated $75,000, the Edison Electric Institute (utility trade association) put up $75,000 more, the National Electrical Manufacturers $25,000. Many a utility man contributed with his fingers crossed, because the New Deal was an enthusiastic booster for the conference. Secretary of the Interior Ickes headed the American National Committee while the Executive Committee was chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke. New Deal officials soothed timid power men with promises that the meetings would be kept free of political propaganda. Nevertheless, most of the agenda might have been phrases culled from Franklin Roosevelt...