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...Voted (268-10-42) to accept the Senate's 10% cut in the Interior Department appropriation bill...
Snapped Minister of Interior Keresztes-Fischer, who controls the police, "I agree. Count Bethlen is right as usual...
...Passed a $45,500,000 Interior Department appropriation bill; sent it to conference...
...Bureau of Investigation ("Secret Service") ; of heart disease; in Sarasota, Fla. Son of a Columbus, Ohio, police commissioner, he gained fame as an amateur detective on local cases, joined the Secret Service as a counterfeiting investigator. But it was Detective Burns's exposures of the Department of Interior's Oregon land & lumber frauds during the Rooseveltian muckraking era, and of Boss Abe Ruef's corruption of San Francisco, that brought him to fame. With a handful of sawdust as his only clew he trapped the Brothers McNamara, later convicted for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times' Building...
...George Curry, 70, last Territorial Governor of New Mexico and its onetime Congressman (1911-13); in Hillsboro, N. Mex. After his father was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in Louisiana, he went to work on a cattle ranch in New Mexico, where also was employed onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall. Congressman Curry later punched cows on Secretary Fall's ranch. After the demobilization of the Rough Riders, Curry went to the Philippines with a volunteer regiment, became first civil governor of the Province of Ambose Camarine...