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...President was talking, of course, about the arch-Democratic New York World's publication of Ralph S. Kelley's oil shale land charges against the Department of the Interior. When these charges appeared last month (TIME, Oct. 6) they were widely discounted as partisan campaign politics. When last fortnight Attorney General Mitchell, upon investigation, pronounced them "without merit or substance," they were left discredited in the Washington gutter for the Senate to nose into. But now, with President Hoover angrily denouncing them and their maker, they were suddenly brought back into sharp public focus...
Question of a Man. President Hoover complained that "no single inquiry was made [by the World] at the Department of the Interior as to the facts." The World replied: Of course not, because the man to whom such inquiry would surely be referred is Edward C. Finney, now the Department's solicitor, formerly (1921-29) Assistant Secretary, the man who saw nothing wrong when the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome scandals were in the making, the man most directly attacked by the Kelley charges. In 1928, Mr. Finney wrote the basic decision which Kelley protested as nullifying the "discovery...
Following the "plate glass riots" in Berlin, when nearly every Jewish department store had its windows smashed (TIME, Oct. 27), Prime Minister Otto Braun of Prussia decided last week that he needed a new, ruthless Minister of Interior. (In European countries generally the Minister of Interior controls the police...
Logically Prussian Braun thought of Herr Wilhelm Karl Severing who, recently Minister of Interior for all Germany, handled his Schupo (national police) with such hard-boiled dash that they nicknamed him "The Dragon Slayer." Asked if he would consent to become Minister of Interior of the State of Prussia, Herr Severing accepted instantly, believing that it is in Prussia, in Berlin, the Capital, that Schupo must break Fascist Adolf Hitler's "brownshirt" movement if they...
...white man or woman was present when China's president was sprinkled with baptismal drops. The trend throughout China today is toward displacing the white cleric or teacher by a yellow person. In certain interior provinces there have even been killings, recently, of Chinese Christian missionaries by their pagan brothers. Two such killings were reported last week in Kiangsi province. The slogan of the hour is "China for the Chinese!" And some Chinese consider Christianity un-Chinese. With these facts in mind Pastor Kaung said last week of his presidential convert: "At this time, when anti-Christian agitation...