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...President-elect Hoover selects Dr. Wilbur as Secretary of the Interior, he will bring to that Department a man of broad experience and tremendous capacity for constructive work. No one knows better than Mr. Hoover that he could not make a "yes-man" out of Dr. Wilbur, which would be the last thing Mr. Hoover would want...
President Monroe imported $60,000 worth of "heavy substantial furniture" from France. President John Quincy Adams caused a public uproar by installing a billiard table. The North Portico was finished by President Jackson, whose inaugural party for the Plain People nearly wrecked the interior...
President Arthur, "the dilettante mid-Victorian, the ornament of New York club life, draped hangings of pomegranate plush over windows and mantels, built a partition of colored glass across the entrance hall, caused potted palms to spring from the red plush carpets and otherwise strove to reproduce in the interior the funereal effects that prevailed in the homes of wealthy New Yorkers of the period...
Last week there strode into the flat white Department of Interior building in Washington a tall muscular man with a thick black mop of hair. His "good morning" to attendants who were just beginning to recognize him was quick, incisive. He was Dr. William John Cooper, Commissioner of Education in the U. S. Department of the Interior, succeeding tireless Dr. John James Tigert, now president of the University of Florida...
Many times has Congress dallied with the idea of taking the Bureau of Education out of the Interior and granting it departmental independence. Roman Catholics, however, have feared Federal interference with parochial schools and it has been their influence largely that has kept Education in a bureau under legislative lock...