The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23
ALL SECTIONS
OF NATION IN
NEW CABINET.
RooSeveIt'S Aids to Include
Nearly Every Shade of
Party Opinion.
BREAKS WITH TRADITION
Woman Gets Post; Other
Places Are Given to
G. 0. P. insurgents.

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WASHINGTON. Feb. 23-Presi-
dent Elect Franklin Roosevelt has
completed his cabinet of nine men
and one woman who will bring to
the new administration the views
of nearly every section and every
shade of party opinion.
The final set-up, as disclosed to
the Democratic leaders here, in
cludes men experienced in industry
and finance, in the problems OF the
farmer and the laboring man, in
legislation and politics.
The new cabinet breaks with
tradition in giving representation to
men who previously had been
aligned with the Republican party.
For the first time, it gives a woman
q place at the national council table.
Here's the Lineups
Barring last-minute changes, the
cabinet which will help Mr.. Roose-
welt shape his promised new DEAL
will be:
Secretary of State-Senator Cor
dell Hull, Tennessee,
Secretary of Treasury-William H.
Woodin. New York lndustrialist.
Secretary of War-George H.
Dern, Governor of Utah from 1924
to 1882
Attorney General 49, Senator
Thomas j. Walsh, Montana.
Secretary of NaVy-Senator Claude
A. Swanson Virginia.
Secretary of Agriculture-Henry
A. Wallace, Iowa farm publisher.
Postmaster General - James A.
Farley, New York, chairman Of the
Democratic national committee
Secretary of Commensurate G.
Roper. South Carolina lawyer and
veteran Democrat.
Secretary of Interior - Harold
Ickes. Illinois lawyer and one~time
Bull Moose" Republican.
Secretary of LabOr-MiSs Frances
Perkins. New York state industrial
commissioner and authority on .abor
problems.
Insurgents Recognized
Selection of Hull and Woodin al
ready has been announced formally
by Mr.. Roosevelt. Announcement OF
the others is expected soon.
Choice of Ickes, Roper and Dern
were the last to. be decided.
Ickes, a Chicago attorney, was
leader in the Bull Moose campaign
of 1912 and his selection gives
representation to the insurgent Re
publican elements which supported
Mr.. Roosevelt in the last election.
The interior department post
which he will fill had been offered
to two Republican senators, Hiram
johnson of California and Bronson
Cutting of New Mexico, but they
preferred to remain in the senate.
Miss Perkins, in private life Mrs,
Paul c. Wilson, also is known as a
liberal.
Woodin, millionaire head of the
American Car & Foundry Company
and big business representative in
the cabinet listed himself as Re-
publican until 1928. He shifted
allegiance when Alfred f. Smith
headed the Democratic ticket.
Dern Knows Vests Problems
Wallace, Iowa farm publisher who
will head the agriculture depart
ment. comes of a Republican fam
ily. His father, Henry c. Wallace,
was Republican secretary of agricul-
ture in the Harding and Coolidge
administrations.
Roper, chosen to be secretary of
commerce, is veteran southern
Democratic leader and is expert
enced in federal administrative
work. During the Wilson admins
tration he held the posts of assistant
postmaster general vice-chairman
of the tariff commission, and COM
missioner of the internal revenue
bureau. In recent years he has prac-
ticed law here.
Almost from the first, Dern's
name had figured in cabinet discus
sion. Mine-owner, banker and Gov
ernor of Utah for eight years, he
thoroughly is experienced in the
problems of the west.
Because of this he was talked of
at first for the interior department
post, but was shifted to the war de-
partment.