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Last week President Roosevelt received another complaint about his Secretary of the Interior, this time from Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. The point at issue was Mr. Ickes' antipolitical administration of the Virgin Islands. Secretary Ickes had insisted that Paul Martin Pearson, sexagenarian Chautauqua organizer appointed by Herbert Hoover as Governor of the Virgin Islands, should not be removed to make room for a deserving Democrat. Senator Harrison had a job-seeking friend named T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson of Mississippi who in 1928 gave up a seat in the House to run for the Senate and lost. Lest...
Fortnight ago The Nation printed an article by Raymond Gram Swing, denouncing Judge Wilson's actions in this petty case, rehashing the practical politics behind his appointment. Last week the Department of the Interior gave out The Nation article as an official press release, an hour later sent messenger boys around trying to retrieve it. Washington correspondents were told it had all been a mistake. But the fat was on the fire, because not only Judge Wilson but Messrs. Harrison, Cummings and Farley were denounced in the article. Stuart Godwin, the Interior's pressagent, had a toothache...
...Ickes ordered to oust Republican Robert Moses from the Triborough Bridge Authority before more Federal funds would be advanced (TIME, Jan. 21). When the Virgin Islands trouble broke last week Mr. Ickes was in Manhattan telling the Dutch Treat Club: "I was introduced to you as the Secretary of Interior, but ... I should have been introduced as Pharaoh's daughter. How was I to know that New York had only one honest man to serve as a public official...
...June 1934, 50 houses were almost or entirely finished. One was occupied. Out of its $25,000,000 Subsistence Homestead fund the Interior Department had spent on the project $437,645-not including about $140,000 worth of work by CWA, CCC and FERA employes. Secretary Ickes announced the average cost of each house to be $4,880. Neighborhood observers, telling of useless wells dug and houses badly grouped for the laying of sewers, water mains and electric conduits, suggested that double or triple that figure would be nearer the truth...
Last fortnight the Interior Department added $900,000 to the $600,000 already spent at Reedsville. Fifty houses are occupied and ten of a projected 140 more are being built. Though Congress ungraciously squelched Mrs. Roosevelt's plan for a postoffice-equipment factory there (TIME, March 12), a government-built vacuum cleaner assembly plant, which will be leased to a private firm, is within three months of completion...