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When Harold Le Clair Ickes took office as Secretary of the Interior, he quickly became one of the outstanding Cabinet heroes of the New Deal. He was honest. He worked hard. He refused to play peanut politics. He had billions of Federal dollars to spend. Yet last week Secretary Ickes was ruefully admitting that his popularity had vanished, that he was, in fact, one of the most thoroughly hated members of the Cabinet. Like everyone else, he knew the reasons...
...Sexagenarian Herrick lay sunning himself at Winter Park, Fla., he received an appointment from Secretary of the Interior Ickes as Government Secretary to the Virgin Islands, right hand Administrative job in the regime of Sexagenarian Governor Paul Pearson. Novelist Herrick packed his bag, boarded an amphibian and three days later took the oath of office in the Administration Building in St. Thomas...
...bridge means uninterrupted railway communication between Beira, Portuguese East African port, and Lake Nyasa, important link in the water route to the interior. Nyasaland, a British protectorate, ships its tobacco and other products through Beira on the Mozambique Channel. Up to now passengers and freight have had to ferry across the wide Zambesi, from railhead to railhead, on slow flat-bottomed river steamers. Now a motorist can entrain at Beira and get off next morning on the high plateau of Central Nyasaland...
Last fortnight Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who is also PWAdministrator and Petroleum Administrator, issued an order to the effect that no man could serve both as a city official and as an administrator of a PWA project within that city. If he tried to, PWA would shut off funds for the project involved. Immediately obvious was it that the PWAdministrator could have saved time by announcing that the Triborough Bridge Authority would get no more Federal money until Robert Moses resigned from it or from his job as City Park Commissioner. Apparently no one else in the land...
Startling to Europeans, but confirming their general impression of what U. S. motoring is like, was this prediction by President Stout: "More attention is going to be paid to crash-padding of the interior. . . . Crashes are going to be a part of automobile ownership and the time has come when they must be taken into consideration in design." Very soon every U. S. car, President Stout hopes, will not only be well padded inside but all projections against which passengers may be flung and gashed if they crash, will be smoothed and rounded, "doing away with all sharp corners, exposed...