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...Weiden two brownshirts, relying on their Teutonic consciences, seized a widow, accused her of obtaining larger dole payments than were her due, marched her around Weiden with a placard upon her breast: "I have shamelessly deceived the Ministry of Interior...
...selection narrowed down, it became plain to the alert U. S. observer that he must choose his Man of the Year from within his Government. Who? No member of the Cabinet, with the debatable ex- ception of busy Secretary of the Interior Ickes, had stood out head and shoulders above his fellows. No Senator, no Representative had glittered individually at the Capitol. In the White House sat Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was Man of the Year in 1932, when the New Deal was new. More popular than the day he won the Presidency, he had lived up to the brightest...
...Roosevelt bundled up warmly and set off in his limousine to make a succession of sick calls. Through sleet and along roads as slick as glass, he first drove to the Naval Hospital. There he found Secretary Ickes propped up in bed attended by a skeleton staff from the Interior Department, trying his best to disregard a fractured rib sustained when he fell on an icy pavement. Oil Administrator, Public Works Administrator, a holder of five extra-cabinet jobs, Mr. Ickes knows that he and Secretary Wallace are the two men on whom the President depends most. It had taken...
...attention of a smart New York Sun reporter. The silver radiator cap, big as a baby's head, was a replica of Ben Hur's chariot. Silver trimmings on the fenders and silver door handles led Newshawk Edmund De Long to peep into the car's interior. Upholstery was of soft green Morocco leather. "On the inside of the doors." De Long wrote in the Sun, "and across the partition separating the chauffeur's compartment is a gold and silver panoramic view of old Egypt with Egyptian dancing girls thinly veiled, going through rhythmic motions...
Married. Dr. Hubert Work, 73, one-time U. S. Postmaster-General (1922-23). Secretary of the Interior (1923-28), chairman of the Republican National Committee (1928-29); and Ethel Reed Gano, Denver widow; in Denver...