Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-06

Many interpretations will be placed
upon Mr.. Hoover's reported selection OF
Henry L. Stimson to be Secretary OF
State in the incoming administration.
No diagnosis will be more accurate than
the assumption that it means the
starring of relations with Latin
| America as the keynote OF Hoover Tor
eien policy. Col. Stimson is acknowl-
| edged to have done about as clean-cut
| a lob In patching up the Nicaraguan
| troubles a year and half ago as any
American diplomatic "fixer" ever &C
complished. President Coolidge sent
him down with practically carte
blanche instructions, or rather with no
instructions at all. Stimson took the
Nicaraguan toro "a VIGOROUSLY ram
pageous animal-by the horns with
neatness and dispatch. He tanned 1t in
no time. Hoover was an attentive OBJ
server of Stimson's work in Central
America. The President-elect had not
been among our Latin neighbors very
long this Winter before concluding that
| the "Stimson touch" Is likely to work
magic If and when applied to our va
rious little differences with states on
both sides of the Isthmus. AS soon as
these are wiped out, President Hoover
plans a full-team ahead trade devel-
opment program with the sister Amer
icas. Stimson's assignment to the State
Department is step No. in that d.
rection.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt has re-
| turned to the Department Of Justice
from visit toher home State Of Cali
fornia to find herself assigned to a
strenuous session with the Supreme
Mrs. Willebrandt spends about two
thirds of her time on tax cases, al
though their more spirited character
has made the public believe she con-
centrates on prohibition prosecutions.
t"Portia" Is called upon to argue no
fewer than five tax suits before the Su-
preme Court within the next 80 days
or so. They involve many thousands of
dollars as well as important principles
of the tax law. One question to be
thrashed out Is whether the priority
accorded the United States by certain
sections of the Revised Statutes gives
the Federal Government preference
in the payment of its tax claims over
those Of a State. The 1928 preSiden-
tial campaign, it appears, turned out to
be the best reducing cure Mrs. Willie
brandt ever tried. IT find I've quite
retrieved my girlish figure" the lawyer
lady explains.
One Hoover man." who was liter
ally closer to him than almost anybody
else in Washington during the past
couple of years, will not be anywhere
near the President-elect henceforward.
He is Bradley D. Nash, "the Chiefs"
private secretary up to and including
election time and during the conclud-
ing Hoover days at the Department Of
Commerce. Nash, type of the bril-
liant young men Hoover always had
around him, was offered promising
executive position with the National
City Bank at New York, and Is now oc-
cupying it. He is the second Hoover
private secretary to break into Wall
Street. The other is Lewis l.. Strauss,
who was alongside the Californian dur
time Washington. At 80, Strauss finds
himself full-fiedged partner In Kuhn,
Loeb & Co., international bankers.
X u n X
No more remarkable or intrepid trav-
eler ever embarked aboard an ocean
liner than former Senator Thomas p.
Gore of Oklahoma, who, with Mrs. Gore,
has just started on the Mediterranean
cruise. The blind Democratic statesman
has never been abroad before. Now, he
says, he's going to "see" the things
about which he's been an omnivorous
reader for so many years. His itinerary
will take him to Egypt, the Holy Land,
England and Italy. The Gore party In
cludes former Representative William
A. Rodenberg of Illinois and Mrs.
Rodenberg. Senator Gore practices
law in Washington. He saved the Demo-
cratic national convention at Houston
last June from ennui by delivering the
one and only witty speech of that other
wise dreary conclaye., As an orator the