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...canal pilots, the risk of damage to ships in transit and increased costs of insurance would outweigh the saving in time. To show that Florida's geologist was not alone in his opinion, Senator Vandenberg next produced a letter by Harry Slattery, personal assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Said the letter: "Unless the canal could be effectively sealed throughout many miles of its course, a procedure presenting difficulties that appear to be practically insurmountable, it would inevitably drain enormous quantities of water from the limestone, would lower the water level...
...dreadful Feb. 6, 1934. half a dozen Paris mobs, enraged by indications of Government complicity in the Stavisky scandals, were moved to rioting which was cut short by the order of Minister of the Interior Eugène Frot. When rifle fire ceased, 24 corpses lay in the streets of Paris (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934, et seq.). Last week, on the eve of the explosive anniversary, sly, black-bearded Eugène Frot, who was once doused with a bucket of slaughterhouse blood, made bold to appear as a practicing lawyer in the Paris Palais de Justice...
...touch it, was hastily palmed off by President Lebrun upon a man who is always handy at the scene of accidents. Target of two clumsy would-be assassins, survivor of two duels, a railway bridge wreck and several motoring mishaps; the statesman who was the responsible Minister of Interior when scandalously inadequate police protection made possible the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia on French soil, M. Albert Sarraut is an otherwise colorless Radical Socialist wheelhorse whose favorite mot is: "I only need twelve days to recover from anything...
...nominating candidates for the House of Representatives, Menocal's men seemed to have pocketed the House. Prime election after-problem : to what extent had Batista's Army, which searched voters for weapons, stuffed the ballot boxes? An oblique answer by Cuba's Secretary of the Interior Maximiliano Smith: "The elections have been the most honest ever held in Cuba. The Army and the police were not only impartial, but also exceedingly gentlemanly...
...than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent No. 19, for a coral-colored dahlia, was granted to Harold LeClair Ickes before he became Secretary of the Interior. He bred it at his home in Winnetka, Ill., named it "Anna W. Ickes" for his wife...