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Major Emil Fey, Minister of Interior...
...front cover) President Roosevelt was last week out on the blue Pacific aboard the cruiser Houston. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau was on a ranch in Montana. Secretary of Commerce Roper was touring the Pribilof Islands. Secretary of War Dern was at the Panama Canal. Secretary of the Interior Ickes left for parts unknown. Attorney General Cummings started across the continent for Hawaii. In short, most of the New Deal was on vacation...
...Emil Hurja, onetime newspaperman who became a Farley assistant in 1932, was later put into the Interior Department to compensate for Mr. Ickes' lack of political savoir faire, and last March was moved to the Democratic National Committee, Boss Farley has an assistant after his own heart. Mr. Hurja writes the PMG's speeches, examines the political credentials of all candidates. The first question is: "Is he a Roosevelt-before-Chicago man?"; the second: "Is he endorsed by his local Democratic organization?'' If the job hunter's credentials are satisfactory, Mr. Hurja gives...
...Inevitably I cannot please everyone. I am not a dictator. I am a simple citizen who loves Liberty and who has the utmost confidence in your wisdom and your love of France. When I began my labors last February interior and exterior peace was threatened. To avert immediate danger we were forced to the recourse of extraordinary parliamentary procedure. [Gastounet forced Chamber and Senate to vote him power to put through the budget by decree] Thanks to Parliament we have balanced the budget; effected fiscal reforms; so improved our trade position that since March 1 500 million francs in gold...
...Franklin Knight Lane Jr., California lawyer, World War flyer, son of Wilson's Secretary of the Interior...