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Same day in Washington Secretary of the Interior Ickes, PWAdministrator, revealed that he had allocated all but $150,000,000 of the $3,300,000,000 public works fund. He, too, forecast further emergency expenditures by the Government next year, when he declared: "I wouldn't be at all surprised if Congress is asked to provide us with additional funds." He estimated that he could use another...
...George Christian's happy days. Calvin Coolidge came. Senators Walsh and Wheeler of Montana between them began to dig into Teapot Dome, into Elk Hills, into the Ohio gang's speculations through the brokerage office of Mr. Ungerleider, into its peculations from the Veterans' Bureau, the Interior Department, the Alien Property Custodian's office. The gang went its way, back to Ohio or to jail. George Christian, by now a deserving Republican, was left in Washington by the receding wave of history...
Bustling Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick established last week what he called the German Health Service Committee, readily admitting that it will have nothing to do with promoting "health" in the usual sense. The Service will promote fewer births among Germans of Jewish blood, more births among "pure German men and women, each of whom must be made more conscious of his or her biological value...
...behalf of a group of King heirs. That the suit was filed in Federal court was accepted as evidence of the overpowering local influence of the Klebergs as rulers of the King Ranch. The lawyer is Thomas Hart Fisher, whose father was President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, himself a member of Chicago's eminent firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. His clients are two grandchildren of old Captain King named Atwood. These Chicago heirs have long been dissatisfied with the way their first cousin, Robert II, has run the ranch. Most serious of the many...
...interior of Wigglesworth Hall in the Yard several large cracks have developed in the walls, one of which is pictured in the accompanying illustration. Here the plaster about the shower has cracked, and is in such a condition as to be in imminent danger of falling from the walls. Similar cases have been found in the bathrooms of many of the Houses where not only the walls have cracked but the floors have swelled also, as a result of improper waterproofing underneath the showers. In the rooms beneath the bathrooms water has leaked through from the floor above causing much...