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...Last week President Roosevelt made the following appointments: Dave Hennen Morris, New York socialite lawyer, to be Ambassador to Belgium-; Sam Gilbert Bratton, Senator from New Mexico, to be a U. S. Circuit Judge after adjournment of Congress; Oscar L. Chapman, Colorado lawyer, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Alexander Wilbourne Weddell of Virginia, former career diplomat, to be Ambassador to Argentina. ¶ Few reports have excited Washington so much as last week's to the effect that President Roosevelt might attend the London Economic Conference next month. The White House secretariat pooh-poohed the story...
Opera director, whose sister was the late famed Art Patron Lizzie P. Bliss, and whose father was William McKinley's Secretary of the Interior. Disliking cats, Bride Parkinson had been sympathetic when her servants complained of nightly prowling & yowling. She decided to act when some cats leaped through her windows while she was entertaining dinner guests. She got a trap from the International Cat Investigating Society (to which Lawyer Herrick, then New York City's Park Commissioner, had sent a letter of encouragement when it formed in 1931 to agitate for licensing of the city...
Before the games on Easter Sunday the Ministry of the Interior announced it would supervise futbol for the rest of the season. Heavy police guards searched 200,000 fans for guns, knives, rocks, bottles and vegetables. By a new law any home club that incites riots among the fans will have its stadium closed indefinitely...
...slow dripping of animadversions against Shepherd Hall has at last penetrated the granite reserve of the administration: it announced today that the Hall would be closed, beginning next year. While the gloomy interior of the place has made it an excellent site for the decay to which students are given, and while some of the more decadent may mourn its passing for that reason, none in his right mind will weep at the bier of the lecherous old incubus. A malignant growth, it has been dislodged only by repeated complaints of various natures, and by the manifesto of the Commissioner...
...Washington Secretary of Interior Ickes got together with large oil operators, independents and representatives of Governors of the 13 oil-producing States, trying to arrange for them what they had not been able to arrange for themselves: control of overproduction...