Evening star., 1928-11-26

Herbert Hoover is afloat-also aroll-
with a trio of men who are likely to
be his kitchen cabinet They are all
writing men, whatever that may fore
shadow. Their names are Mark Sulli-
van, Will Irwin and George Barr Baker
Irwin is covering" the trip as the rep
resentative of a news syndicate. but,
like Sullivan and Baker, he accom-
panies Hoover to South America at the
President-elect's private invitation. The
country may be certain that the trinity
of scribes now aboard the Maryland
will be powers around the White House
throne after March 4. 1929. Irwin was
Hoover's roommate and classmate at
Stanford University. Baker, after serv-
ing as a. naval cable censor in the
World War with the rank of command
er, became associated with HooverS
postwar relief work in Europe and in
1920 managed the Californians pre-
convention publicity campaign. Sulli~
van has been one Of the President
elects journalistic intimates and ad-
visers since the war. He accompanied
Hoover on numerous Department of
Commerce trips and once or twice BIOS
somed out as his political spokesman.
If the Army could pick Hoovers Sec
retary of War for him there'd be an
almost unanimous vote in favor of for
mer Senator James W. Wadsworth, jr.,
of New York. Dwight F. Davis, the
present head of the War Department,
would be an acceptable inheritor of his
own portfolio. but If Davis becomes a
member of the Hoover administration
kt@n %atf tr tAf he AtNnc
sador. Wadsworth not only is a one
time soldier, but as the longtime chair
man of the Senate military affairs
committee he knows and loves the
Army through and through. 1t was
always his major interest when in Con-
gress. New York State will present one
of Hoover's f1rst-class problems when
the time comes to parceling out cab
met p]ums. No one is accounted Surer
of sitting at the next Presidents official
table than "Bill' Donovan of Buffalo,
in the capacity of Attorney General.
That may exhaust the Empire States
cabinet quota.
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Washington dinner tables and :
o'clock teas are rocking with roman.
tic bit of Republican rumor. It as
sociates in sentimental vein the names
of two very high-ups in the late presi-
Dental campaign, both of whom hap.
pen to be eligible to re-entry in the
matrimonial arena. Sweeping re-
organization of the national commit
tee might be necessitated. If Hymer
triumpfs, unless the G. o. P. were con-
come family affair.
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A young American we'll known in Of
fetal Washington, George l.. Harrison
has Just been appointed to one OF the
country's blue ribbon financial posts
the governorship of the Federal Re-
serve Bank of New York. He sue.
ceeds the late Benjamin Strong. Aftel
graduation from the Harvard Law
School in 1918, Harrison served for &
year as legal secretary to Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes of the United State:
Supreme Court in 1914 he was ap'
pointed assistant general counsel of the
Federal Reserve Board. Following Rec
Cross service in France, Harrison be.
came counsel of the Federal Reserve
Board. and in 1920 left Washington
to be deputy governor of the Reserve
Bank in New York City. He has made
himself an expert on foreign financing
and in recent years conducted num-
Der of negotiations leading to exten'
sion of vast dollar credits to interna.
tional banks of issue. Harrison is Al
years old He vaults now into $50,00C
annual salary.
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Honest Vic" Donahey who is about
to leave the governorship Of Ohio after
three successive terms, doesn't think
that traficking In worthless German
marks currency is an extraditable Of
fense. Federal law officers at Washing
ton are interested in recent decree Of
his to that effect. A Greek restaurant
proprietor in Detroit wanted to prose
cute in Michigan a fellow HELENE. who
had sold him 1O7,000,000 in pre-wai
German Autographs for $4oo. The
purveyor Of the marks emigrated te