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...Colleges undertake to teach young men to think and then plunge them into so many activities that they have no time to think," is a charge made by the president of Lafayette. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, who was for a long time a college president, declares that the standard college is a misfit in education and is a cumbersome mill, grinding material indiscriminately...
...last week Secretary of the Interior...
...Yosemite National Park. The U. S. paid $3,300,000 for the tract, half the purchase price being donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.* Last year, over the vigorous protest of Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana who owns a summer home in Glacier National Park, Congress ordered the Interior Department to buy up all private land within national parks to save them from mutilation (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929). Under the law the U. S. pays one-half of such cost, private contributors the other half. In his announcement of this first major acquisition of national park private land Secretary...
Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur called upon admen to clean up U. S. landscapes defaced by billboards...
Sued. Albert Bacon Fall, onetime Secretary of the Interior; by the U. S. Government to recover $158,127 in back taxes plus $77,198 penalties, on monies (including a $100,000 bribe) unreported in his income tax returns but proven to have been received by him from Oilmen Edward Laurence Doheny and Harry Ford Sinclair...