Evening star., 1952-12-09
Society News
By Katherine M. Brooks

Vice President and Mrs. Alben
w. Barkley will leave the first OF
next week for their home in Padu-
cab. KY. where they will be for
Christmas and the holidays. They
will be joined there by Mrs. Bark
ley's son-in-law and daughters.
Air Force 1t. and Mrs. Weldon
Behrend and Miss Jane Hadley.
who is a student at the University
of Wisconsin.
Vice President and Mrs. Barkley
will be back in Washington Janu-
ary for the convening OF the new
Congress January 3 and plan to
keep their apartment at 21O1
Connecticut avenue.
Cobinet Officers Here
Secretary of State and Mrs.
Dean Acheson expect to have their
Christmas festivities in their home
in GEORGETOWN. Early in the new
year they are planning a long
cruise to rest.
Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. John w. Snyder will be with
their son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ernest Horton
and little Lyn in their Bethesda
home. What the Snyders Will do
after January 20 has not been
decided but with their interesting
family living in Washington they
probably will not go very tar away.
Secretary of Defense and Mrs.
Robert A. Lovett. now in Paris
for North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization meetings, will be back
in their Shoreham apartment the
end of next week and plan to
stay through Christmas and the
holidays. They do not expect to
be in Washington after the close
of this administration.
Attorney General and Mrs.
James P. McGranery are ex-
pected to be here for the holidays.
having leased the house at 43lO
Forty second street shortly after
he entered the cabinet.
Donaldson FomiIy Fete
Postmaster General and Mrs.
Jesse M. Donaldson usually spend
Christmas with their son and
daughter law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jesse M. Donaldson, jr., and
probably will again this year.
The Donaldsons will stay in
Washington which is "home" to
them though by the spring. and
perhaps before. they will do con-
siderable traveling-doing things
and going places they never have
had time for until now.
Planning a Christmas in their
own apartment in the West
chester with their son Jimmy
are Secretary of the Interior and
Mrs. Oscar l.. Chapman. Like
the Donaldsons they have been
active in Washington for so many
years that the Capital would
seem unnatural without them.
Their neighbors in the West
chester. Secretary of Agriculture
and Mrs. Charles Brannan, also
plan to be here for the holidays.
In fact they have no plans for
moving out Of their pleasant
apartment before spring, if then.
Mrs. Brannan is president of the
Women's National Democratic
Club and her term does not ex-
pire until May.
Secretary and Mrs. Brannan got
back the end of last week from
Mexico where they were members
of the official party from the
United States attending the in
auguration of the President.
The other two members of the
cabinet, Secretary Charles Sawyer
of Commerce and Secretary
Maurice Tobin of Labor, will be
absent from Washington for
Christmas.
Secretary Sawyer returned yes
terday from Europe and will Join
Mrs. Sawyer in their Cincinnati
home for the holiday. He will be
back for the closing weeks of this
administration but she is not ex-
pected in Washington within the
next few months.
Secretary Tobin will be in his