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...practice to become a regular Colorado Party man. He won a name as a smart, respectable politician by vigorously backing public works: rural free schools, roads, harbors, airports, fertilizer factories, hydro-electric plants. He put through Uruguay's high tariff on agricultural products. His jobs: Minister of the Interior, Minister of Industries, Minister to Italy, Special Ambassador to Argentina, member of the National Administrative Council. A year after his 1930 election he toured inland Uruguay, speaking out for a change in the Constitution, offering to resign the Presidency to hasten reform. Then he favored Switzerland's commission form...
...Secretary of Labor Perkins, Secretary of the Interior Ickes and leaders of the United Mine Workers conferred with President Roosevelt on the state of the coal industry, which Chief Justice Hughes has characterized as "deplorable" (TIME, March 27). Both Secretaries hurried directly to the White House from a conference on another of the nation's fuels: the Governors' oil conference. Convened to settle the question of proration (now on the verge of complete breakdown), the conference at once split into the usual two factions: big producers for proration, independents against...
...steel walls, Container Corp. in the development of its insulation. It is occupied by Ruth Page, able modernistic opera and concert ballerina. Dancer Page's husband is able Lawyer Thomas H. Fisher, son of Walter L. Fisher who served as President Taft's Secretary of the Interior. Dancer Page's brother-in-law is tall, yellow-haired Howard T. Fisher, architect, who with another lawyer-brother Arthur, conceived General Houses, Inc. After it opens its Chicago World's Fair exhibit June 1, General Houses expects to offer a five-room-&-bath dwelling, similar to the Ruth...
Suddenly Berlin police demanded the passports of two members of the vanished Braun Cabinet, famed Karl Severing, one-time Prussian Minister of Interior (which made him in 1920-26 and 1930-32 the head of Berlin's and Prussia's police) and onetime Prussian Minister of Education Adolf Grimme. The police said they wanted to "examine'' the passports, refused to say why. Pale green with fear...
...Meissner, when he had heard this story over the telephone, rushed to President von Hindenburg. Calmly Der Feldmarschall ordered a police investigation, dictated his "profound regrets for such unchivalrous treatment'' which were duly conveyed to Widow Ebert. Later Nazi Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Minister of Interior for Prussia (i. e. of police), apologized to Germany's George Washington's still trembling widow. Safe outside Germany where he says he will stay "because of Hitlerism," Professor Albert Einstein read last week that his home had been burst into and ransacked by Nazis who said they were "looking...