Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10


news of the world for the seven
i days ended March 8:
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.-On
March 4 Herbert Clark Hoover was in
States and Charles Curtis as Vice Presi-.
dent.
The new cabinet Is made up as fol-
lows: Secretary of State, Henry l.. Slim
son of New York; Secretary of the
Treasury, Andrew w. Mellon of Penn
sylvania Secretary of War, James w.
Good of Iowa; Attorney General, Will
liam D. Mitchell of Minnesota; Post
master General, Walter F. Brown CT
Ohio; Secretary Of the Navy, Charles
Francis Adams of Massachusetts, Sec
rotary of the Interior, Ray Lyman Will
bur of California; Secretary of Agricul-
ture, Arthur M. Hyde of Missouri; Sec
rotary of Commerce, Robert p. La
mont of Illinois, and Secretary of Labor,
James J. Davis Of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Good has served in Congress-
Mr. Mitchell gives up the Office of
solicitor general to become Attorney
General He Is Democrat, but it is
no new thing to see Democrat in
Republican cabinet. Roosevelt. for ex-
ample, had two Democrats successfully
for Secretary of War Mr.. Brown has
been active In the politics of his State
and Is promoted from assistant Secre-
tary of Commerce. Mr.. Adams is
member of that family which has fur
nished more distinguished men Gin
Guiding two Presidents) to the service
OF the State than any other American
family. He resigns the Office of treasurer
of Harvard University to become Sec
rotary Of the Navy. He is director
in many enterprises, but is perhaps
best known to the world as a skillful
yachtsman He should find his new
Office congenial. Dr. Wilbur resigns
the presidency of Leland Stanford Uni
versity to become Secretary Of the In
terror. He Is a brother Of the retiring
Secretary of the Navy. Mr.. Hyde was
Governor of Missouri 1925. He is
known for his opposition to the equal
izafion fee principle of the McNary-
Ha,lpen bills Mr.. Lamont is an engi-
neer. and since 1912 has been presi-
dent of the American Steel Foundries.
He Is an old friend of Mr.. HooverS'
and the latter has had opportunity to
determine his qualifications for the post
recently relinquished by himself He has
served as a member of the United
states Chamber of Commerce Commits
sion for the study of economic condi-
| lions in Europe, ana was mempeT
of Mr.. Hoover's business mems COM
mittee in connection with the MISSISSIPPI
pi flood. His business interests are ex-
tensiye and he is reputed a very rich
man: he Is, moreover, said to be not
| able promoter of art scientific research,
and humanitarian foundations.
The members of the new cabinet
whose political activities have been i'm
uortant are Mr.. Stimson, Mr.. Mellon,
Mr.. Good, Mr.. Brown, Mr.. Hyde and
Mr.. Davis. One, Mr.. Mellon, Is bank
er: one, Mr. Lamont, is an engineer;
one, DR.. Wilbur, Is physician six.
/ Stirnson, Good, Mitchell, Brown, Adams
and Hyde are lawyers. Mr.. Davis
started the serious business of life as
a boy worker in pudding mill. Only
two members of the new cabinet, name
", Mellon and Davis were members of
the retiring cabinet
In special Sunday session on March
3, the House passed, 100 to 152, reso-
luton proposing poStponement for one
year of the effective date of the ma
tional origin quotas provision of the
immigration act of 1924. The Senate,
however, declined to do business on the
Sabbath, and Senator Reed of Penn
sylvania was easily able to fllibuster off
a vote during the brief Monday meeting
Of the Senate before the knell Of the
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