Months ago Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes decided that his department deserved a better name and he more authority. Hence a bill appeared in Congress to rename the Department of the Interior the Department of Conservation. Last week the Senate passed and sent to the House a bill creating a Department of Conservation. Yet Secretary Ickes was anything but happy. The Senate bill gave him nothing but a new title, failed to give him administration of the Soil Conservation Service (new AAA), the Forest Service, the CCC. Worse still. Secretary...
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