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...last week Stanley Forman Reed was sworn in as Solicitor General of the U. S. Taking that oath cost him $208 a month because he gave up a $12.500 job as general counsel of RFC to take the $10,000 Solicitorship General. But public advancement meant more than money to Mr. Reed, who is the husband of the Registrar General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and in his own right a country squire and cattle breeder at home in Maysville, Ky. First called to Washington by President Hoover as counsel to the late Farm Board at $25.000 salary...
...Solicitor General, President Roosevelt appointed smart, Kentucky-born Stanley Reed, RFC General Counsel who helped to present the Administration's arguments in the gold cases...
...Hubert Durrett Stephens was holding public office (a district attorneyship) when Charles Thomas Fisher Jr. was a suckling babe. Last week they both received like privileges, the right to suckle Uncle Sam's payroll for $10,000 a year as directors of RFC. But these identical privileges were to them quite different rewards...
...student at Georgetown University. He emerged to become a vice president of one of Detroit's two great arid now defunct banking groups. He emerged from Detroit's banking fiasco with the personal commendation of Jesse Jones tangibly as well as verbally expressed. He was made RFC's representative in Michigan. His elevation to the RFC board, to succeed the late Senator John J. Elaine of Wisconsin, was to him not a plum but a plume...
When Mr. Stephens did lose his seat to Bilbo, his old friends, John Nance Garner and Pat Harrison, were afraid that The Man Bilbo would block Senate confirmation of an RFC appointment for Mr. Stephens. They undertook a diplomatic mission to Senator Bilbo...