Evening star., 1933-07-28

sistant IN the State Department. Null
len, ST., was q prominent Roosevelt
floor leader ut Chicago.
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Destination Of Mrs. Blair Bannister,
sister Of Senator Carter Glass, as As,
sistant Treasurer Of the United States
indicates that the march Of the ANA
IONS across the Roosevelt administra-
ton field proceeds apace. They're now
In the cabinet, the diplomatic service,
the Treasury, the Department Of JUS
tice and the Civil Service Commission,
and it's in the cards that still more
plums are to be dropped In the ladies
laps as the patronage tree from time
to time is shaken. Apparently there's
no present intention Of giving Minister
Ruth Bryan Owen sisterly colleague.
An ambitious member OF the bobbed-
boom for herself as Minister to Yugo-
slavia. She got her picture into the
papers, and everything. But when the
President was asked about 1t at q press
conference, he announced that the new
Minister to Belgrade would be "he."
and not . she"
Now that the London Conference is
OF Uncle Sans mind, at least for the
indefinite future, he's going to concen-
trate upon Q conference on which he
pins some honest-to-goodness hopes.
It's the Seventh Conference Of PAN
American States, to be held in the capi-
tai Of Uruguay next Winter and
destined to be known as the Montevideo
Conference. Our Minister to Uruguay,
J. Butler Wright, jr., has been at work
on the preliminaries for two years. The
inside story Is that President Roosevelt
and Warrington generally lay i'm
mensely more stress ON Montevideo, as
far as economic benefits for the United
States are concerned, than they do on
10 Londons. We have always sent out
standing delegations to these periodical
conclaves Of the Al Americas, and
Montevtdeo will be no exception to the
rule. Secretary Hull is . likelihood for
chairman. DR.. Leo 8. Rowe, director
general Of the Pan-American Union.
who speaks Spanish like q grandee, is
almost certain to be at Montevideo. too,
and Hugh Gibson, about to arrive as
Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro. will
hardly be missing from the Yankee
contingent either. Gibson Is battle
Sumner Welles, now ambasSadorial
peace-maker~i in Cuba, will probably 60
to Montevideo Is well.
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Julius Klein, former Assistant Secre-
tary Of Commerce, slips back into
Washington ever and anon these days
on personal business. He Is In the
service Of an important New York
banking group In connection with the
affairs Of the Paramount Publix Picture
Corporation, looking especially after
bondholders' interests.
Attornew General Cummings loves
making iwisecracking answers to re-
porters when they fire wild questions
at him. Asked the other day about .
report that he was going to resign to
accept an ambaSsadofial post, he said:
There Is nothing less tangible than
vacuum. In other words, there's moth
ing In IT,"
Secretary Of War Dern, addressing
the Governor Conference In Califor-
mia this week, made remark that's at
tracted no little attention In Washing
ton. Facing the issue Of possible Su-
preme Court rejection of the New Deal,
he said that II fundamental emergency
legislation Is held to be unconstitu-
tional, or II some Of the States should
prove recalcitrant, he would favor a. IN
alternative the calling Of . constttu-
tional convention.
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