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Roosevelt settles Virgin Islands controversy by transfers
Washington dispatch notes President Roosevelt resolved a long running Virgin Islands quarrel by moving two officials to Washington. Paul M. Pearson becomes assistant director of housing in the Interior Department and T Webber Wilson shifts to the federal parole board. The piece surveys the Pearson Wilson feud, Ickes reform aims, and debates over long congressional sessions and policy toward the islands.
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