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 Secretary of Treasury Henry Nor genthau, Jr., left in a huff when Mir. Truman failed to endorse a proposition that he stay on for some specific period. Secretary of In- terior Harold L. Ickes stormed into private life shouting "foul". Ickes' departure was part of an incident in which the legislative branch gave MT. Truman Q rebuff.
 Lost on Pauley
 It had to do with nomination of Edwin w. Pauley, former treasurer of the Democratic National Com mittee, to be Under-Secretary of Navy. The opposition, with 1ckeS' assistance, was terrific. MT. Tru- man stood pat but finally had to withdraw his friends name from Senate consideration.
 Except for Ickes, the cabinet of- ficers went quietly and, for the most part, in good spirits. Some of them, ike Henry L. Stimson, the Secre- tary of War, were old and tired. Some, like Frances Perkins, who headed the Labor Department, and Frank o. walker, Postmaster Gen. eral, were more personal associates of the late MT. Roosevelt than cabi- net officials. They did not egret that they no longer were wanted or needed.
 Secretary of State Edward R. Stet- tinius, Jr., had the worst luck of all. He was put in office to suc- ceed the aged and ailing Cordell Hull. MT. Roosevelt put him there as a front man and salesman for his foreign policy. MT. Roosevelt intended to be his own secretary of state.
 Feared Stettinius as President
 On the Presidents death and the succession of MT. Truman, the Dem- ocratic faithful realized that in the event MT. Truman died the new president would be Stettinius. Stet- tiniuS had no particular political background. He was 8 J. P. Nor gan man and a former officer oi the United States Steel Corpora ton.
 Stettinius went and was succeed ed by James F. Byrnes, former member of the House and Senate and Supreme Court and one-timt director of the Office of War Mo- bili2ation.
 While these nationally-known fig. ures were coming and going, tht Missouri gang began to form around the President. Despite his year in the Senate, MT. Truman did no know intimately a great many per sons outside Congress except his olC friends back home. So when ht had to fill the jobs, big and little he turned instinctively to Congress or to Missouri.
 MT. Truman's personnel problems have been relatively minor. Strike reconversion, Congress and initiation are his headaches today as the. have bene for months.
 Protests Numerous
 Labor protested against the 30 coolng-off period he proposed Management scorned his fact-find ing boards and reported then weighted unfairly against capital. The consumer Is unhappy becaus his dollar buys lesS-if it buys what he wants at all. Steel, auto mobiles, coal, the electrical industr, ali Fundamental in our economy have been struck hard.
 Congress has rejected MT. Tru lman'S cooling-oSf and fact-fndtnI proposals to curb strikes.
 The Presidents honeymoon end ed with the war. Congress saN him into the White House with shout of Good Old Harry. MI ] Truman was a member of the Sen ate club. He knew how to dea easily and intimately with his ol' cronies. But despite all that tn ] early months of his administrator passed and onl yone of his propoS als won legislative approval. Ina was the measure to return the na ton from war time to standar' time. Republicans Scoff at the Presi dent as the weakest since Franklil . Pierce. Democrats complain eithe that he goes too far or not ia enough. The President, himsel ) smiles through much of the roug and tumble trouble he has en l countered.