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Secretary of the Interior. Harold L. Ickes (pronounced "Ick-us"), 58, of Chicago, is a Midwest maverick appointed as a reward to progressive Republican bolters. He was recommended to the President-elect by Republican Senators Johnson of California and Cutting of New Mexico after they had both rejected Cabinet bids. The Ickes appointment started loud grumbles among Illinois' Democratic leaders who were completely ignored in the selection...
...Ickes live comfortably on a ten-acre place at Winnetka where the new Secretary of Interior putters among his dahlias, drives a Packard, collects stamps. For this week's inaugural he is buying and wearing his first high silk hat in 30 years...
...Approved the conference report on the Interior Department appropriation bill; sent it to the President. ¶ Held a memorial service for the two Senators and eight Representatives who died within the year...
Count Charles was attacked in the Chamber because his Minister of Interior, Vicomte Prosper Poullet, had certified the election returns from small Hastiere near Namur. "In that election," shouted an Opposition Deputy, "there were gross irregularities. Shame on Poullet! Shame...
...quoted every Thursday among unlisted securities. By buying a share you become a "Proprietor" and may roam at will through the dingy-faced, bronze-doored building at No. 10 1/2 Beacon Street, across from the Bellevue Hotel and in front of old Granary burying ground. The Athenaeum's interior was remodeled in 1913 but it is still mellow, musty. Its most famed room is the Scruple Room, so-called because the large collection of pornographic books it contains is catalogued with a pharmacist's "scruple mark." To draw books from these shelves one must go to the librarian...