Evening star., 1933-12-13

present farm turmoil gives him a
chance to ride back to political power
on his original platform.
r
Joe" OMahoney's appearance in the
Senate in January as Junior member
from wyoming will prove no surprise to
Harry T. Whelan. Washington lawyer
"Joe's" chief lieutenant in the campus
political campaigns of the Georgetown
University law class of 1920. Dennis
Chavez New Mexico's sole Representa-
tive in the House. was a member of the
same class. which went in heavily for
college politics. Georgetown Laws rep
resentation in Congress includes, in ad-
dition to Messrs. O'Mahoney and Cha
Vez, Senator Bankhead of Alabama
| and Representatives Bankhead of Ala
bama, Condor of Rhode Island. Con-
merry OF Massachusetts. Douglass of Mas
Sachusetts, McClintic of Oklahoma.
Walter of Pennsylvania and Thorn of
OHIO. Senate Sergeant at Arms Jurney
Is also a Georgetown Law man.
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| Gen. johnson recently paid tribute
10 the direct-action methods of George
N. Peek, just appointed to head the
new Roosevelt agency for promotion
| OF foreign trade. During the war"
| S.<ASA cSAAAoOAl, bOt4l LllC OOORG
ers came into Peek's office at War
industries, demanding relief from auto
mobile steel restrictions in such char
acteristic verbiage that the air of that
not little office shack was blue and
the empurpled brothers had finally to
pause from lack of breath. George
| said, Go on, you; speak your Ian
guage.' Then he Strengthened out in 10
minutes what they hadn't been able to
secure in two weeks Of wandering about
the labyrinth of wartime Washington" :"
Gen. johnson once was Peek's legal
| adviser in the pillow business at Moline
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Long before Cornell professors Of
farm economies pointed the way to
monetary salvation for Uncle Sam
they went tc the agricultural rescue of
China. There have Just been revealed
| the gratifying results of the "Nanking
cooperative improvement project" for
famine prevention in China, which has
had 1000 fanlines in 1900 years. Since
1925 the Cornell College of Agriculture
has supplied succession of professors
colleagues of Prof. Warren, now
| Treasury gold adviser, and DR.. Myers,
| governor Of the Farm Credit Admins
tration-to assist the Marking authori-
ties in a general program of plant
breeding for agricultural improvement
purposes. DR.. H. H. Love, who initiated
the scheme, has been serving since 1929,
on leave Of absence from Cornell, as
farm adviser to the Marking govern
ment. The famine prevention work has
now been put on a permanent basis,
with Cornell-educated Chinese agron-
omists in charge.
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| With the orrivol N, uo cb;nofov, of
George S. Messersmith, Berlin consul
general, administration leaders have op-
portunity to confer with the first Amer
lean official In Germany to report here
since establishment of the Nazi regime.
Mr.. Messersmith should find the profess
serial atmosphere of the new deal con-
genial. He was schoolmaster for many
years before entering the foreign serv-
Ice in 1914. Native of Pennsylvania,
he was principal of public schools in
several Delaware towns and later vice
president Of the State Board of Educa-
ton at Dover. Consul General Messer-
smith was on duty at Buenos Aires be-
fore promotion to Berlin in 1880.
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A newcomer to the Washington press
j gallery Is George B. Bingham, son of
Judge Robert w. Bingham, American
Ambassador to Great Britain. He is
filling in at the bureau of the Bingham
newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal, while its regular Washington cor
respondent, Uric Bell, Is acting as press
officer Of the United States delegation
at the Pan-American Conference in
Uruguay. Young Mr. Bingham is regu-
larly attached to the home Office staff
In Louisville.
! Copyright. 1887