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Serving from 1909 to 1919 under four Secretaries of Interior (Garfield, Ballinger, Fisher, Lane) Andrew Christensen had charge of investigation of all public land matters in Alaska, notably the coal land cases which caused bitter controversy between Secretary Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot, then head of the Forest Service. Later he directed construction of the Alaska Railroad from Seward to Fairbanks...
...Franklin Roosevelt was at Bronson Cutting's political throat. The break between them was not spectacular. The beginning of it, though neither of them recognized it. took place before the Roosevelt inauguration when Senator Cutting, independent as always, declined the job of Secretary of the Interior offered him in return for his support of Roosevelt...
Liberia. There is no doubt that most British civil servants would like to see some European country administering Liberia. Founded 114 years ago with U. S. help as a home for liberated slaves. Liberia has become the scandal and pesthouse of West Africa. Slavery is rampant in the interior, so is malaria. Both have made inroads in neighboring British and French territory, but the only respectable firm that has ever made serious inroads in Liberia is Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio. Many times in recent years there have been delicate hints that the League of Nations would...
...Cuba's most violently anti-U. S., anti-imperialist, a focus for the most personal and violent emotions in the highly personal politics of Cuba. When Cuba swung Left after the 1933 revolution, it swung toward Tony and he became Secretary Guiteras of the Army, Navy and Interior. He was a great one for issuing decrees and had a reputation for being death on terrorists. When Cuba swung Right and into the hands of President Carlos Mendieta and General Batista, Tony was the terrorist, a hunted man under the "state of war" by which Mendieta & Batista currently keep...
...bandit who had killed a lieutenant from ambush, faced in manful silence four rifle barrels, died without a word. To frivolous murder Cubans are accustomed, but the legal and methodical execution of a criminal was last week profoundly shocking and disconcerting to all Cuba. Announced the Secretary of the Interior last week, "Senora O'Halloran fought bravely. She should be brave enough to face a firing squad...