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...Passed a $68,554,000 appropriation bill for the Department of the Interior; sent it to the Senate...
...Federal Power Commission, that small but potent dynamo of political disturbances, generated fresh currents of news last week when President Hoover appointed its five new members. Until Congress at its last session reorganized it on a full-time basis, this Commission was composed of the Secretaries of War, Interior, Agriculture. Selected as chairman was big, wavy-haired George Otis Smith, since 1907 director of the Interior Department's Geological Survey. Maine-born and Colby-graduated, Dr. Smith learned about water power from charting and gauging streams, selecting power sites, serving as technical adviser to the old Commission. His other...
...make good their threat to seize the State by armed power. Amid perfect calm Dr. Otto Ender, one more henchman of Austrian boss-politician Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, assumed the Chancellorship. He did not reappoint sword-rattling Prince von Starhemberg to His Highness' former post of Minister of Interior, appointed no Fascist whatever...
...proud mammoth was a sorry grotesque sight. One wing, stripped of its covering, stretched its blackened framework upward at a crazy angle. The other, now unbalanced, dipped its weight into the sea. The hull was blackened, much of the interior flooded. Said Captain Friedrich Christiansen, returning from his shore visit, "It's hard luck, but our ocean trip will not be called off. It is only delayed...
...United States Department of the Interior, through its "Office of Education," has been making a survey of the field of journalism, with the purpose of "giving the opportunities and limitations of writing as a career. There are more than 28,000 men and 5,000 women who write for 20,000 newspapers, magazines, trade journals and similar publications--nearly 2,300 of these being daily papers with a circulation of 44,000,000 copies. This means that one person in every three buys a daily newspaper--or, omitting children under under fourteen years of age, one in every...