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...ordinary expense in the "regular" budget. Result is that the cost of running the ordinary departments of Government appears to be zooming. Every regular department of the Government shows substantial increases in its costs for 1937 over 1936 and 1935. The Departments of Agriculture (not including AAA), Commerce, Interior, the nonmilitary activities of the War Department, and independent offices all will spend more than twice as much in fiscal 1937 as they nominally spent in fiscal 1935. Labor and Navy will spend over 75% more. The "regular establishments" as a group-exclusive of veterans' pensions, interest on the public...
Only the most strenuous remonstrance by Economics Minister Dr. Hjalmar Schacht obtained respite last week for Germany's 25,000 Jewish traveling salesmen whom Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick would deprive of their licenses. "Jewish traveling salesmen," according to Dr. Frick, "tell stories and spread rumors all over the Fatherland which are contrary to the welfare of the nation...
...onetime Secretary of the Interior, convicted bribe-taker, grandson of a co-founder of the Disciples of Christ (Camp-bellites). was visited by priests, baptized a Roman Catholic...
Before he entered the Roosevelt Cabinet in 1933 as Secretary of the Interior, Harold Le Clair Ickes used to be known as the Lone Wolf of Chicago politics. Because lone wolves have trouble hunting with the pack. Secretary Ickes publicly snarled through his clean fangs at NRAdministrator Johnson, WPAdministrator Hopkins, onetime Housing Administrator Moffett, many another member of the Roosevelt pack. But, devoted as he was to the New Deal, Lone Wolf Ickes really meant to be helpful to the Administration in his own slow, stubborn...
...white wife, provided by Portuguese missionaries. The conversion was short-lived, though later generations of the Bini adopted wholeheartedly the custom of crucifying their human sacrifices. By 1896 Britain had already established control of the coast of Nigeria, was eager to trade with forbidden Benin in the interior. Acting Consul General Phillips, eager to hurry matters, sent a message to grinning black King Overami of Benin, asking permission to visit his capital, arrange a treaty. With the messenger the Briton sent the traditional present: a bottle of gin, a piece of cloth, a walking stick. King Overami appreciated...