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...illness; in Manhattan. Among her onetime pupils: Authors Tess Slesinger (The Unpossessed), Myron Brinig (This Man Is My Brother). Died. Rev. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, 72, famed evangelist; of heart disease; in Chicago (see p. 46). Died. Walter Lowrie Fisher, 73, Chicago lawyer and traction expert, Secretary of the Interior under President Taft; of coronary thrombosis; in Hubbard Woods, Ill. Died. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 78, paleontologist, longtime (1908-33) president of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History; suddenly, of a heart attack; at "Castle Rock," his Hudson River home near Garrison, N. Y. At home over the whole...
...personally appreciated very much your recognition of the efforts of the American Aviation Mission in China. When you mentioned the group, as a "devoted group," you were correct, as these young men did a wonderful job under extremely adverse circumstances. Living as we did in the interior of China, the mails from home were looked forward to with the greatest impatience. I think that every member of the group was a subscriber to TIME because of the wide field of information which you publish. May I congratulate you upon the real knowledge and pleasure that you give Americans...
Secretary of the Interior Ickes: Why Mr. Ickes for the engineering task of remaking much of the face of the country? . . . Nothing in all of Mr. Ickes' honest lawyer's life remotely suggested that he could do such a job-and he didn't do it. It was folly to expect him to do it. ... The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers . . . might not have done the job either, but at least it had an engineer's chance to do it and Mr. Ickes didn't have a Chinaman's. Either...
While other Administration officials fretted privately at General Johnson's honest sniping, spunky Secretary of the Interior Ickes barked at a press conference in Washington: "He a critic? Why, he's helping the Administration. Perhaps you hadn't noticed that. . . . Since the good General was bucked out as head of NRA he's been suffering from mental saddle sores...
Brave in ceremonial beads, buckskin, war bonnets and ermine tails, six elder statesmen of Montana's Flathead Indian tribe ranged themselves one day last week behind the polished Washington desk of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes. It was a great & grave occasion- the signing of the first tribal constitution under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (TIME, June 25, 1934). Secretary Ickes and Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier were as solemn as the Indians. Just as cameras were about to record the event for posterity a horrified Ickes press-agent spied, clinging to one Indian...