Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11

Not often, II ever, in the history of
tn Republic has 1t fallen to the lot
Of 33-year-old American to sign his
country'S name to so important docu-
ment as the World Court protocol. That
was the rare distinction which came
to Jay Pierrepont Moffat, American
charge d'affaires at Bern, Switzerland,
on December 8. Mr.. Moffat is complet-
ing his tenth year In the foreign serv-
ice, though, before formally entering 1t,
he was doing private secretarial work
for the United States Minister to the
Netherlands. The young New Yorker
Of distinguished ancestry has crowded
several major diplomatic duties into his
decade of ofacial life. Harvard by edu-
Turkey and Canada. While in the State
Department at Washington, between
1925 and 1927, he was the State Depart
n1ents protocol off1cer at the White
House, his job there including the mo-
mentous matters of precedence and
ceremonial. At Geneva, Moffat func-
toned as an American representative
on both the 1927 preliminary disarma-
ment commission and the subsequent
opium conference. He recently married
the daughter of Joseph G. Grew, Am
bassador to Turkey.
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Senator Pat Harrison, Democrat, Of
Mississippi (whose given name is Byron
Patton, not PATRICK is no longer the
only Pat who adorns the Federal scene.
The past week has brought two more
prominently into the picture. One is
Pat Hurley, the new Secretary Of
War. The other is Pat" Sullivan, the
new Senator from Wyoming. They are
honest-to-goodness Patricks. Senator
Sullivan comes to Washington with as
widespread an acquaintance and popu
larity in national politics as any man
who ever entered the Senate, though he
has never held public Cfflce. Pat" has
been a Republican wheelhorse ever
since he could vote, and that covers the
better part of the past half century.
The lanky Irishman from the sheep and
oil country, whose brogue is a thing of
beauty and Joy forever, has four pas
sionate devotions-his country, his fam
ily, his party and his church. Senator
Sullivan believes to his marrow that the
@. o. P. is the foundation Of all good
and that the protective tariff, in par
To know Pat" is to love him. He Is
tower of strength In the Republican
national committee. Yet another Wash
ington pat" Is McKenna, chief usher
of the White House ofhces.
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William P. MacCracken, jr., former
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Aeronautics, follows Mabel Walker Will
lebrandt into the speciality Of aviation
law practice. Although Bill" as all
washington knows him, says he isn't
going to kick any good case out of his
office. he expects his duties as general
counsel for three of the country's
greatest aviation transport corporations
to keep him, so to speak. up in the air
most of the time. MacCracken will re-
tain the secretaryship of the American
Bar Association, a $1-a-year ONCE. His
headquarters will be In New York, but
the lure OF washington is strong both
for him and his wife-one Of the nu-
merous Texas beauties In Capital society
and their friends hope to see much Of
them on the Potomac.
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| Senator Arthur Capper. Republican,
| of Kansas was invited not long ago
! to speak in the Middle West and name
! his own subject. He chose Senators
! I Have Known" When he reached
| the banquet table and scanned the pro-
gram Capper was flabbergaSted to OBJ
serve that through a Geographic trans
nilsson error the title of his talk had
reached the committee Of arrange
ments as Sinners Have Known" and
was so printed.
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Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald
seems to have caught the commission
fever in Washington and on the Rapi-
dan. At any rate, the Labor chief
tain Is under fire in LONDON Tor in
dulging in the Hoover penchant Tor
commissions. Under the caption of
Commissions Galore" Macdonald Is
assailed in the London Sunday Times
as follows: within six months, as
Mr.. Macdonald himself reminds US. his
! government has set up 3 royal COM
m 'ssions and IS committees OF inquiry,