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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Westbrook Pegler's scoring of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger in his column Monday, Aug. 9 [TIME, Aug. 23! ? I'll bet you that orchid you wear that John Boettiger saw it and had "the courage not to care" whether Pegler's column appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. MURIEL SHANNON...
...month has murmured that the President planned a cross country jaunt to Seattle, ostensibly to visit his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger. Last week, Publisher Boettiger revealed what almost no one else except the President was in a position to know. In his Seattle Post Intelligencer he announced that the President definitely intended to make the trip "to secure first-hand information on the accomplishments' in this area under his administration...
Said the President's son-in-law's Post Intelligencer: "The President will visit Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams,* in which he is vitally interested and will study the progress of the projects and the effects on this district...
...What the Post Intelligencer did not say was what everyone took for granted- that the President would make the trip the occasion for a few major speeches en route, a personal investigation of the Northwest's reaction to the last few months of the New Deal. Closest thing to official confirmation of the Seattle Post Intelligencer'?, scoop that could be gotten last week was an admission that the trip was under consideration. But last week the President had no eastern appointments on his calendar after September 17, when he is scheduled for an outdoor Constitution Day speech...
Thus, when Andrew Mellon stepped into the Cabinet he was beyond question one of the great men of U. S. industry and finance. Many great lawyers have been members of the Cabinet but he was the first great financier-industrialist ever to hold such a post. Hence a sentimental public, once it knew who he was, fostered the legend that he was "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton...