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...Adolf Hitler who abruptly bestowed arbitrary power to settle all German church issues upon Vice President of the Reichstag Hans Kerrl, a young and virile Jew-baiter? Herr Karrl's appointment came apparently from the Ministry of Interior. No confirmation could be had that the Realmleader approved this or Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick's other drastic move last week in appointing as Berlin's Chief of Police ruthless, Jew-baiting Count Wolf von Helldorf who was once the intimate friend of the late Storm Troop Leader Ernst Roehm. Did Hitler, Germans wanted to know, approve...
...Brewster, he said, some two years ago at the Manhattan apartment of Dr. Ernest Gruening (pronounced greening), Director of the Interior Department's Division of Territories & Island Possessions. As editor-publisher of the Portland, Me. Evening News from 1927 to 1932, Dr. Gruening had been a warm friend & ally of Ralph Brewster in his fight on the Insulls. Mr. Corcoran was roundly assured that Mr. Brewster was one man above all others who could be relied upon to fight the power interests. On the President's orders, went on Witness Corcoran, he helped draft the Wheeler-Rayburn Utility...
...Tydings and Pat Harrison, patron of T. Webber Wilson, but the entire Senate afire with stored-up resentment at the Secretary's blunt, tactless refusal to play political ball. Likewise ranged against their fellow Cabinet officer were "Generals" Farley and Cummings. But the dogged little Secretary of the Interior stood undaunted against the field. He was priming to let fly another blast at Senator Tydings when he received a call from the White House. He emerged from a half-hour talk with President Roosevelt to announce that he did not care to discuss the Virgin Islands any further...
Maryland's lean, long-armed, young Senator Millard E. Tydings, chairman of the investigating committee, volunteered the opinion that the testimony showed nothing to reflect on Judge Wilson, but "it may reflect on some other people." At that Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes, superior and champion of Governor Pearson, blew up. At a press conference he stormed that "the hearing ought to bring forth just a few facts," raged that Judge Wilson was "bringing the administration of American justice into disrepute in the Islands'' and ought to be removed for "judicial misconduct." Then...
...This promise that the Interior Department might cross-examine witnesses yet remains to be fulfilled by you. . . . Since the witnesses were immune from crossexamination, it is not to be wondered at that perjured testimony has crept into the record...