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Under Secretary of the Interior Ickes, Public Works Administration has been trying to get action through two subsidiary agencies. Both have proved equally "disillusioning" to the impatient Secretary...
...smart Los Angeles lawyer named Martineau was made a Special Assistant U. S. Attorney General and summoned to Washington. The Department of Interior's much-publicized Investigator Louis R. Glavis was once more in the spotlight. It was darkly hinted that revelations would be more scandalous than anything since Teapot Dome. Attorney General Cummings and Secretary Ickes conferred with the President. A Federal board was hastily announced to issue ''tenders" without which not a drop of East Texas oil could be accepted for shipment in interstate commerce. And. as the Washington marching and countermarching continued, newshawks were...
...graduate students and commuters would solve a long-felt need. Memorial Hall, unused except at examination time, might well be reconverted into a dining hall for these men without a great deal of expense to the University. Kitchen facilities are already installed there and with some remodeling of the interior to make a more cheerful atmosphere, it would be a suitable place for such a dining hall. Another solution is also possible if the expense of this in considered too great. The Big Tree swimming pool, idle and unused for many years, could be remodeled without too great an expenditure...
...rich but it nearly drove the rest of the oil industry to the poor house. It was East Texas that tumbled the price of crude oil to 10? per bbl. in 1931. It was East Texas that made President Roosevelt put the oil industry under the Secretary of the Interior. And it was East Texas that incited the gasoline price wars which broke out like a rash all over the land last week. They are pumping oil in East Texas now instead of just piping it off but that paradise of the little fellow is merrily producing at least...
...perfect accord last week: Federal regulation was a colossal fizzle. The overwhelming majority of the industry was ready to cooperate with Administrator Ickes in the suppressing of the festering hot oil racket. Yet after a year under the code and despite constant thunder from the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice and the Treasury, hot oil flowed freer than ever. The sole landmark in the oil badlands was the fact that the price of crude was still $1 per bbl. And by last week it was no longer a question of whether or not it would...