Word: interior
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Capitol Democratic Senators were secretly circulating a round-robin to the President protesting their failure to land jobs for friends. Particularly under fire for failing to appoint deserving Democrats were Secretary of the Interior Ickes, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Labor Perkins. Nevada's Pittman, Foreign Relations Committee chairman and president protem of the Senate, was credited with a letter to the President which declared: "It is a strange thing that if a Democrat recommends an appointee, it is political coercion. If a Republican recommends one, it is entirely unselfish. If a Democrat is named ... it involves political...
...bewildered professorial Cabinet remained in Gerardo Machado's ornate palace. The army was restive, wondering where its next month's pay would come from. The treasury remained almost without money. Tax collection which had revived under the short-lived de Cespedes government ceased abruptly. In the interior, sugar workers were on the rampage. Even in Havana labor was so disorderly that business paralysis impended...
...construction work that has been completed during the summer includes a brick double garage behind the President's House which will accommodate the automobiles of President Conant. The new addition to Kirkland House, Bryan Hall, is open for use, and the refinishing of the interior of the Harvard Athletic Association offices in the Harvard Union is also completed...
Uncle. The U. S. Government is not in loco parentis to Education, nor is it likely to be. Yet pedagogs who have been begging for Federal aid took hope when the New Deal came in. Last June they began looking anxiously towards the white Department of the Interior Building in Washington, wherein is housed the U. S. Office of Education. Secretary Ickes had appointed a committee to canvass the nation for the ablest possible successor to U. S. Commissioner of Education William John Cooper. The committee picked George Frederick Zook, 48, president of the University of Akron (TIME, July...
...last week there were only two known portraits of him that he had paid for. John Singer Sargent had done them both. Last week a third was added. The painter was one Michael Matsakas, 36, a Greek Chicagoan with curly black sideburns, who has been a busboy, wrestler and interior decorator in public; a poet, philosopher and painter in private. The price: a used pale blue necktie...