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...Herbert Spencer Dickey (TIME, Oct. 19) intrepid explorer, valiant promoter, is to be applauded for his share in helping deliver the interior of South America into the hands of ''dudes." Ma)' his expensive collection of them see many Jivaros. shoot many monkeys...
Grant's Secretary of the Interior (1875-77). Chandler's dour effigy now stands in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. The Hales inherited a large slice of the Chandler fortune, made in dry goods in Detroit. Scion of two such potent and distinguished families, young "Freddie" Hale was carefully schooled (Lawrenceville, Groton. Harvard) and steered into the Law as a stepping stone to politics. His father's name and fame helped him to get elected to the Maine House of Representatives for one term (1904). In 1916 he was elected to the U. S. Senate where...
Like Franklin Roosevelt, Newton Baker came under the spell of Wilsonian idealism. Both worked hard for their idol at the hectic Baltimore convention of 1912. Both were rewarded with membership in the Wilson political family. Mr. Baker was first offered the Department of Interior portfolio. He refused it only to accept the War Department post in 1916. His activities as head of the nation's greatest army were last year glowingly described in Newton D. Baker; America at War by Frederick Palmer...
Italy's troubles in North Africa started in 1911 when, to forestall the territorial hopes of Germany and France, she declared war on Turkey and seized the province of Tripoli. The Turks were easily dispatched but not so the Senussi tribesmen of the interior. During the War, when Italy had no men to spare for Africa, Senussi tribesmen drove the Italians back to the coast and practically reconquered the territory...
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