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...Roosevelt and Wilson" were some of the things Editor William Allen White last week called his great and good friend President Hoover in the first issue of a new Republican campaign tabloid weekly.*;In the same issue Will Irwin began an interview with the Secretary of the Interior thus: "Ray Lyman Wilbur looked up at me across the tracks of a baby dinosaur. . . ." C. Last week President Hoover contemplated the New York stockmarket (see below), moved against unemployment...
...Ray Lyman Wilbur last week got a new lease on Cabinet life. When his great & good friend President Hoover made him Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Wilbur, as president of Stanford University, was given a year's leave of absence by his trustees. That leave expired Aug. 31. Last week the Stanford Daily, undergraduate publication, editorially demanded that Dr. Wilbur resign either his Cabinet position or his college presidency...
WILLARD L. DAYTON C. L. MCVAUGH RAY W. LABBITT CHAS. E. BROKAW ROGER M. ANTHONY Detroit, Mich...
...minimum), loomed more and more clearly in the public prints last week as an interesting national possession, also as the focus of an alleged national scandal. Ralph S. Kelley, the Interior Department's field chief at Denver, last fortnight resigned his post, loudly protesting that Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur was not taking proper care of all the people's great property (TIME, Oct. 6). The Department of Justice asked him for his evidence. He replied last week that the Department of Justice was prejudiced. Then, while Washington officials fumed, he began to tell his story publicly...
...spread, people came running with money to buy the mine. One gram of radium sells to-day for from $50,000 to $70,000. A group of Canadian doctors finally succeeded in buying several hundred acres around the discovery. Headed by Dr. Gordon Earle Richards, head of the X-ray department, Toronto General Hospital, and Dr. George William Ross, they organized Ontario Radium Corp. Last year they sent samples of their ore to England. There it was refined, meeting satisfactorily all necessary tests. The doctors found that one ton of their ore yielded 186 milligrams of radium. Belgian Congo mines...