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From crowned Romanovs to cap-wearing Bolsheviks, M. Barthou has known his Russians for nearly two generations. In 1896 he was Minister of Interior and as such responsible for the safety in France of newly-crowned Tsar Nicholas II who came to throw a magnificent bridge across the Seine in memory of his father Tsar Alexander III. Today le Pont Alexandre-Trois is still the most magnificent in Paris and across it in his long-snouted Renault limousine M. Barthou has ridden in animated conversation with Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, the roly-poly one time traveling salesman...
...Sinclair was stepping ashore in Manhattan, the rest of U. S. oildom was assembled in the rain at Titusville, Pa., celebrating the 75th anniversary of the drilling of the first oil well by the late Col. Edwin I. Drake. The celebration was no love feast. While Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania smiled on the speakers' platform, Axtell J. Byles of the American Petroleum Institute keynoted: "Upon the rock of rugged individualism this nation was founded...
When the news was out, Secretary of the Interior Ickes, an oldtime Republican insurgent, chuckled: "That's fine! I've been hoping ever since 1912 that we'd have political parties divided on real issues. It looks like it's working out that way at last. . . . I'd like to see all the progressives together and all the conservatives together...
First administrative re-action to the League sponsored by Alfred E. Smith, John W. Davis, and prominent Republicans came from Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickles, a progressive Republican New Dealer. He welcomed the League in the belief it would lead to realignment of parties in this country...
...months ago President Roosevelt bunched the Washington government of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands all under a new Division of Territories & Island Possessions in the Department of Interior. Last week he found a man to run the lot along New Deal lines. The man was Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening...