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...speaker, Quaker, to be first Civil Governor of the Virgin Islands. Purchased from Denmark in 1917, the islands have hitherto been in charge of the Navy Department with Captain Waldo Evans, retired, as governor. Jurisdiction of the Virgin Islands now passes from the Navy to the Department of the Interior...
...during the past few weeks has developed into the Senate's leading altruist-Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas. Shocked by Red Cross Chairman John Barton Payne's refusal to accept the $25,000,000 which he had attached as a rider to the Interior Department's supply bill (see p. 22), Minority Leader Robinson proposed that the Senate find another medium for distributing its relief to Drought-stricken farmers and unemployed city dwellers. But the House, to which the measure had been sent, voted his rider out of the Interior Department appropriation 224-to-90. Human Misery...
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...Passed the Interior Department appropriation bill to which was attached a $25,000,000 Federal food fund amendment ; sent it to a House conference...
Sugar & Death. The penalty of Death for anyone caught burning sugar cane was decreed last week by the Machado government after anti-Machado vandals had burned 35,500,000 Ib. of cane in five days in the interior...