The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-03

It was Cummings who hit upon the idea of starting a campaign of public opinion against crime and on behalf of the G-Man. For years prior to Cummings advent in the Justice Department, Hoover had been running the Bureau of Federal Investigation almost un- noticed.
 Now J. Edgar Hoover, hero to millions of boys, is better known than the man who helped put him across. AMBASSADOR KENNEDY
 State Department reports from London indicate that Joe Kennedy is one of the most popular am- bassadors the United States has ever sent to the knee brooches loving Court of St. James's.
 Britishers like an American who does not pretend to be anything else but an American. They are used to seeing motion pictures of Americans smoking big cigars, talking slang, and being brusque and hearty are disappointed at an envoy who carries a British um- brella, affects a British accent.
 There Joe Kennedy, whose Bos- ton-Irish vocabulary has more choice explosives than anyone's in Massachusetts, pleases them right down to the ground. They espec- io1 1Ixy 1iGo fIn iIao Cf I1ic y,i,Nn cLi1 dren, and the two elder daughters who are with their father in Lon- don are especially pouular. So is Mrs. Kennedy. -. ..
 Kennedy's popularity is not,
 merely with the elite of London,
 but with cabbies, walters, and
 the man on the street. They all
 feel they know him.
 Note-Cordell Hull is not over- ly enthusiastic, about Ambassador Kennedy. No one knows why. CAPITAL CHAFF
 A gentleman came to see Sena- tor Burton Wheeler the other day, a man whom the Senator suspect ed of being an emissary from Jack Garner, and suggested that Gar ner and Wheeler would make an ideal ticket for 1940-Garner for President and Wheeler for vice. President. Hitherto, Wheeler had fancied himself No. man on the ticket .. One politically appoint ed diplomat who has made good is Frank Corrigan, new Ambassador to Venezuela. He was the pretege of Professor Moley of original Brain Trust fame, spoke Spanish perfectly, has made good record and been consistently promoted <. In Venezuela Corrigan replaces Antonio Gonzales, who also is a political appointee, sponsored by the late Cardinal Hayes of New York. Gonzales, however, was the opposite of Corrigan, and a few months after Cardinal Hayes died the State Department dropped Gonzales.
 SECOND ROUND
 Several weeks ago the governors of the New York Stock Exchange thumbed their noses at a demond of Robert Hutchins, president of Chicago University for disciplinary action against the Wall Street moguls whom the SEC had criti- cized regarding the Richard Wit ney scandal. Protesting against this pussyfooting, young Hutchins resigned as public representative on the Stock Exchange board.
 Those criticized by the SEC had criticized regarding the Rich ard Whitney scandal. Protesting against this pussyfooting, young Hutchins resigned as public repre- sentative on the Stock Exchange board.
 Those criticized by the SEC were chiefly J. P. Morgan, Thomas La- mont, and E. H. Simmons, former head of the Exchange. Insiders att tributed the governors run-out to Morgan pressure and predicted that William Douglas, crusading chairman of the SEC, would be heard from.
 He has. Douglas has now counter-attacked - and with g vengeance. tl
 Not many people noticed a regu- lation issued by the SEC the other day requiring wide open conpeti- tion in the floating of holding company stock issues. This is the