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...concerned that the genial attitude of King Carol since his restoration has seemed to the Hebrew community almost too good to be true (TIME, June 23). Last week His Majesty followed up an earlier protestation of "love for my Jewish subjects" by exerting pressure on the Minister of Interior. Forthwith the Ministry's Chef de Cabinet, M. Tarfoianu, famed Rumanian Jew-baiter, was dismissed from his post. Jews continued to rejoice that during his protracted exile King Carol took a Jewish mistress...
...Congress had authorized him to do, President Hoover last week signed an executive order creating a Veterans' Administration. In it will be united the independent Veterans' Bureau, the Department of the Interior's Pensions Bureau, independent National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The President said: "I regard this consolidation as the most important step in governmental machinery reform since this Administration came into office...
Work on Boulder Dam, world's highest (727 ft.), was ready to start last week. Congress had appropriated $10,660,000 to get the $165,000,000 project under way. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur approved a construction order which was telegraphed to Las Vegas, Nev., where Walker R. Young, resident U. S. engineer, received it. Said Secretary Wilbur: "With dollars, men and engineering brains we will build a great natural resource . . . make new geography . . . start a new era ... conquer the Great American Desert. To bring about this transformation requires a dam higher than any the engineer has hitherto conceived...
...town at the dam site to house 5,000 workmen and families. Construction job No. 3: $18,000,000 tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert the river's flow while the dam is being built. The whole construction job will be under the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation which will contract with private firms to do the work...
...arches his cast stone back on the top of a sugar-stick minaret. A trained seal on a barber's pole is balancing a whirling ball on the tip of his nose. Up the balustrade of the exterior staircase stalks a procession of pink elephants, rhinoceroses. The interior is even stranger, with carved witches and fairies, gnomes and children, a giant metal plum pudding, glass-eyed electric spiders that slither up and down on copper webs. To curdle young blood one room has a reproduction of the cauldron in which Jack's giant made...