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...Jackson Barnett and his wife went to Washington. His wife's lawyer was a smart young Kansan named Harold McGugin. The Secretary of the Interior, Albert Bacon Fall, obligingly agreed to let Jackson Barnett give half a million dollars in Liberty Bonds to the Baptist Home Mission Society and another half million to Mrs. Barnett. Of the latter sum $135,000 was alleged to have gone to Lawyer McGugin...
...Benjamin Harrison's time the Department of Interior began to allot farms to the members of the Five Civilized Tribes. To Jackson Barnett, for his very own, went 160 acres in eastern Oklahoma which he did not bother to go and look at. In 1912 after Crazy Jack had lived peaceably through the administrations of 18 Presidents, something happened to him. A man came, gave him $800, got him to put his thumb print on a paper granting the right to drill for oil on his farm for which he was to receive a royalty of one-eighth...
...authority-or else be disciplined by their presbyteries. Confident of increased prosperity this year, the Presbyterian Finance Committee upped its benevolence budget to $8,000,000 in expectation of $2,000,000 more than was received last year. Star guest speaker at the Presbyterian assembly was Secretary of the Interior Ickes, a good Presbyterian, who reviewed the social objectives of the New Deal, pictured them as identical with those of Christianity, and asked: "Will the leaders in the Church follow the banner which has been boldly raised by President Roosevelt -. . . wholeheartedly or only reluctantly...
Secretary of Interior Ickes has Nathan R. Margold, Harvard Law School graduate, as his solicitor, and Robert D. Kohn as his director of PWA housing. Madam Secretary Perkins has two able Jewish helpers, Isador Lubin Jr. as labor statistician and Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. as solicitor. Lawyer Wyzanski has spent most of his 28 years winning prizes: as a high school boy, from the Daughters of the American Revolution; as a student at Phillips Exeter, the Walter Hines Page, Merrill and Teschemacher prizes (all in one year) and a four-year scholarship at Harvard; as a junior at Harvard...
...rules, sat on the floor of the House during consideration of that measure to prompt its "sponsors" in debate. Not until his presence seemed likely to cause a Republican stir did he retire. Besides Cohen, there are others like him: Dr. Jacob Viner (Treasury Department), Norman Meyers (Interior Department), Abe Fortas and Lee Pressman...