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...violation of any state law. It was reported that 600 tank cars, awash with "hot oil," had rattled out of the great flush fields of East Texas the night prior to beat the President's order. Placed in charge of the "hot oil" order was Secretary of the Interior Ickes who had done much to get the petroleum industry on record against this brand of 'legging. He promptly issued drastic enforcement regulations which carried fines and imprisonment for all violators. Each producer is required to submit to Washington a monthly report of how much oil he takes from...
Graft? The Department of the Interior has never quite lived down the bad name Albert Bacon Fall gave it as a result of the oil scandals a decade ago. When honest Harold Ickes took office, he promised the country he would not be "the black sheep" of the Cabinet. Yet, like everyone else, he knows perfectly well that three billion Federal dollars cannot be poured out of the Treasury without some of it spilling over improperly. Day & night he reiterates his determination to keep graft out of his Public Works Administration. He can trust himself and his immediate aides...
...party will have an opportunity to view articles belonging to Revere in a setting the same as it was when he occupied the house. Nearby is Old South Church, the oldest church biulding now standing in Boston. From its steeple the signal lanterns of Paul Revere were hung. The interior of the church remains the same as it was in the Revolutionary period...
...domain larger than Belgium, wilder than Abyssinia, more visited than Rome, colder than Moose Factory and hotter than Tophet, a fabulously scenic empire scattered over half a continent, quietly changed hands last week. In Washington, Secretary of the Interior Ickes announced that effective Aug. 9, Arno Berthold Cammerer would be the third director of the National Park Service. His job: to introduce the U. S. people to the grandeur of their own amazing outdoors...
...late great Stephen Tyng Mather was taken from his Chicago borax business by Secretary of the Interior Lane, who two years later made him first head of the National Park System. Director...