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...Sumner Curtis and Thomas Dawson, newspapermen, killed in an accident near Denver on the first leg of the journey. Then came the death of President Harding of apoplexy in August, 1923, while returning to Washington. Fourth, was the death of Mrs. Hubert Work, wife of the Secretary of the Interior, after an automobile accident in May; fifth, the death of Brigadier General Charles E. Sawyer, of cerebral hemorrhage in September of this year; sixth, the death of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace of complications following appendicitis, in October last; seventh, the death of Mrs. Harding, widow of the late President, last...
...funeral took place in Marion, with Secretary of the Interior Work and Secretary of War Weeks in attendance on behalf of the Administration. A military guard was dispatched by the War Department from Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Harding's body was placed temporarily in the vault with her husband until the Harding Memorial tomb could be completed...
...chief members of the party which made the trip to Alaska were: Secretaries Work of the Interior, Wallace of Agriculture, Hoover of Commerce; Speaker Frederick H. Gillett, White House Physician Charles E. Sawyer...
...Appropriations Committee of the House assembled in the Capitol, last week, in advance of the reopening of Congress. With Martin B. Madden of Illinois in the Chair, the Committee settled down to work on a number of appropriation bills. The supply bills for the Post Office and the Interior Departments were taken up. With appropriate foresight, the Committee hopes to have several appropriation measures ready for the House as soon as it assembles...
...proposed "Department of Education and Relief" is a mere subterfuge. The existing Bureau of Education entirely inadequate in powers is to be transferred from the Department of the Interior, but not one additional power is granted it. The other functions of the new department are as heterogeneous as the sources from which they are drawn. In brief it proposes to take over the Public Health Service, the Veterans' Bureau, the Civil War Pension Bureau, and numerous other stray functions which have been unwanted step-children to the departments that have administered them...