It had been bad enough having Harold Ickes slam down his mitt and stomp off the field. Picking a substitute was almost worse. With big Ed Pauley ducking pop bottles, and Harry Truman's Missouri infield hobbling weak grounders, the President's critics were ready to boo almost anyone he sent in. But last week some of them actually found themselves applauding his new Secretary of the Interior, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), huge (237 Ibs.), young (38) Julius Albert Krug, last chairman of the late War Production Board.
In hulking "Cap" Krug* the President had...
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