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...Senate. He was made permanent chairman of the Kansas City convention. He was widely discussed for the VicePresidential nomination. That was the Moses crescendo. After Senator Curtis was nominated, Senator Moses was widely predicted for Republican National Chairman. Then that title was given to Secretary of the Interior Work. Senator Moses was announced as Eastern manager for the campaign. Then Chairman Work began to function and Senator Moses was announced as just one of Dr. Work's many subordinates. Contrary to G. O. P. tradition, there would be, said Dr. Work, no New York headquarters for the Hoover campaign...
...Serbs. . . . Croatian schools have been closed and now Croatian children are taught that they are Serbs living under a Serbian heaven, ruled by a Serbian god who is attended by Serbian angels." The new Slovene Prime Minister is a Roman Catholic priest, Father Anton Korosec who was Minister of Interior in the recently fallen cabinet of Serb Velia Vukichevich. The cabinet was obliged to resign by the titanic scandal which ensued when a deputy of the government party shot two Croatian deputies dead on the floor of the Skupshtina (parliament) and wounded three other Croats, including famed Stefan Raditch, leader...
...Soon after Nominee Hoover left, President Coolidge announced that Roy Owen West of Chicago had been appointed Secretary of the Interior, succeeding Dr. Hubert Work, national chairman for Hooverism (see THE CABINET). No successor to Nominee Hoover as Secretary of Commerce was named or reliably rumored...
...unexpected appointment but unsensational. It was so purely personal and political, that it was uninteresting. Yet it seemed adequate. President Coolidge himself had pointed out that the Department of the Interior is so well staffed and organized that it scarcely would need a chief to replace Dr. Hubert Work for the balance of the Coolidge administration...
...Owen West of Illinois became Secretary of the Interior without reasonable doubt that the Senate would confirm him when it meets. Aged 60, circumspect, alert, "regular" pince-nezzed, he had done well as a Chicago lawyer, served faithfully as a G. 0. Politician in Illinois (five times State Chairman, three times National Delegate, twice National Committeeman, and for the Coolidge campaign National Secretary). This year he was to have been vice chairman of the National Finance Committee, but he said he would resign that job at once and "familiarize myself with the great office for which I have been chosen...