Evening star., 1935-03-29
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

has never burned incense before the
shrine Of the Pittsburgher who was
Secretary of the Treasury from 1921
until 1882, took a shot at Uncle
Andy" by observing that I'VE had
three Presidents serving under Andrew
w. Mellon" Couzens was referring
to legal evasion Of the tax laws" dur
ing the Harding Coolidge and Hoover
administrations by certain rich men.
Bernard M. Baruch scored heavily
before the Senate Munitions Commit
tee this week Members Of the COM
mittee were obviously appreciative of
the silver-haired New Workers. candor
in volunteering the details of his pri-
vate financial activities when he be-
came chairman of the World War In
dustries Board. 1t was not the COM
mittee's purpose or desire to 60 into
these matters. but merely to get the
benefit Of Mr.. Baruch's views on the
best way of taking the profit out of
war. His disclosures are regarded at
the Capitol as having pretty effec-
tually disposed of recent aspersions
cast upon him by certain detractors
on the radio.
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Frank o. Salisbury, English artist
whose portrait of President Roosevelt
has just been unveiled at New York,
says that F. D. r. has no fewer than
SO different characteristic facial ex-
pressions and is therefore far more
difficult to paint than Mussolini. Al
though he passed week in the Presi-
dents office, studying him before
starting the picture, Mr.. Salisbury had
only an hour. and IS minutes for the
actual sitting, which took place while
the President uninterruptedly trans
acted executive business. In reply to
protests against giving foreigners COM
missions to paint American Govern
ment leaders, the English artist points
out that the official painting of King
Edwards coronation. which now hangs
in Buckingham Palace, was made by
an American, Edwin Abbey.
Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of
Labor. will be the June commence
ment orator at Wellesley College. 1t is
apparently her acceptance of the in
vitation to deliver the address that
gave rise to unfounded reports that
Americas first woman cabinet mem
Der is to become president of Welles-
ley when the incumbent, DIR. Ellen r.
Pendleton, retires next year.
Ambassador Bullitt's departure for
his post at Moscow this week puts
an end to suggestions that revocation
OF Soviet recognition and severance
OF diplomatic relations might result
from the collapse of RusSo-American
debt and trade negotiations. Resolu-
tions pending in both Houses of Con-
gress, looking to breach with Mos
COW, are not destined to get any,
where. The only apparent conse-
quence of the debt-trade breakdown
is indefinitely to hang up arrange
ments to spend 81 ,000, 900 on Ameri-
can Embassy and consular premises
in the Soviet capital. Mr.. Bullitt re-
turns to his job in the hope that
ways may yet be diScoverable for
patching up Yankee horse trade
with Stain, Litvinoff g. Co.
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Support of Senate repeal of the in
come tax pink slip law by Senator
Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi,
chairman Of the Finance Committee,
and other administration leaders is
interpreted as certain indication that
both President Roosevelt and Secre-
tary Morgenthau all along favored
abolition Of the provision, though
they rengiously refrained from taking
sides in the controversy.
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