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Beat the devil.(Devil in the Details)(Mount Diablo, name change petition rejected)(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, November, 2005 by Tomasky, Michael
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WE'VE BEEN MADE AWARE that there are cronies all over the Food and Drug Administration, that a crony may land on the Supreme Court, and that a horse-training crony ran the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But by gum, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names has evidently been spared a similar fate.
We know this because in mid-October, the courageous board voted--unanimously!--not to change the name of Mount Diablo, the muscular, 3,849-foot mountain several miles inland from ...
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