Evening star., 1935-05-06

rural electrification, calls himself "a
consulting engineer in management"
He began life as reporter, served an
apprenticeship in Cramps shipyard
and was an assistant engineer in the
Navy during the Spanish-American
War. In 1918. when attached to
the War Industries Board at Wash
ington, he had some contact with
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and later,
when F. D. R. was Governor Of New
York, Cooke became a trustee of the
Power Authority of the Empire State.
The promptness with which the rural
identification outfit got ready for
business-two days after MIR. Cookies
pointment-convinces the Presi-
dent that no time will be lost in max
ing work relief dirt fly" as far as
rural electrification is concerned.
With resignation of Henry CHaD H.
Sewer of Texas as Ambassador to
Chile, Mr.. Roosevelt finds himself un-
expectedly with class A diplomatic
plum at his disposal There's bound
to be plenty Of competition for it.
With presidential election coming
along, politicians and patronage
spoilsmen are expected to clamor for
the post as their divine right, but re-
cent appointments to the foreign serv-
ice indicate that career men have
claims which the President and Sec
retary Hull are not disposed to ignore.
With administration stress on the
good neighbor policy with Latin
America, especially in the domain of
trade, the betting is that the am
bassadorship at Santiago will be given
either to an experienced career man
or some business leader.
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Sometime this month q big dele
cation of Texas editors is due in
Washington and hopes to pay its
respects at the White House, pros
pectively under the chaperonage OF
Senator Morris Sheppard, who is dean
Of Congress by virtue of having had
a longer continuous service than that
Of any other living memeber. Texans
say 1t was chiefly President RooSe-
velt's cordial White House reception
of Senator Tom Connally at the
head Of Texas delegation last year
that assured Connally success in his
ensuing primary contest. Friends Of
Senator Sheppard are confident that
his consistent pro-New Deal record
will stand him in good stead In his
forthcoming primary fight for re-
nomination, when he may have to
face several rivals, including Repre-
sentative Martin Dies and Gov. James
v. Alfred.
Former Gov. John Garland Pollard
of Virginia, chairman of the Board
of Veterans Appeals, is the editor of
an amusing little volume entitled "A
Connotary-Definitions Not Found in
Dictionaries" In it New Deal" Is
defined as Dictated, but not red"
Attending the University Of Chi
cago in l898-99, at the same time
that John Wellington Finch, now
chief Of the United States Bureau of
Mines, was studying geology, there
was an undergraduate by the name
Of Harold L. Ickes. Now Mr.. Finch
finds himself at the head of one
OF the important divisions of the
Interior Department, presided over by
his campus mate of 81 years ago.
Like so many of Americas eminent
biologists and mining engineers, Mr..
Finch has seen service all over the
world, including China, Siam, India,
South Africa and Turkey. as well as
the gold and silver fields of the United
States. One Of his American posts
was that Of dean Of the School of
Mines at the University Of Idaho.
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