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...President starts to build his administration from the top down by getting ten good men and true for his Cabinet. These first-rank appointees then help him fill up the lower grades in their respective departments. Next to be found are the 32 members of the Sub-Cabinet ranging from the Undersecretary of State to the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor. A clean sweep in the foreign service requires 15 new Ambassadors. 42 new Ministers. A new President must pick & choose until he gets men to serve him as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Commissioner of Customs, Comptroller of the Currency...
...topic for discussion was selected from a number of subjects that included War Debts, the Far Eastern Question, Disarmament, which was last year's question, and the Isolation of the United States. The resolution is to be framed by a sub-committee which will, in turn, send it to the heads of delegations from the 30 nations that will be represented at the meeting of the Assembly. The mode of procedure for the gathering will be determined by a committee of which wills, who has had experience in English Universities in such work, is chairman...
This series of contests is one result of efforts at both colleges to persuade as many boys as possible to be participants in athletics, instead of spectators. Experience at Cambridge shows that while the sub-varsity groups are typically indifferent about practice, they are keen on playing in real games. And waving a blue sweater in their faces is enough to stir the crimson blood in every mother's son of them! The Boston Herald
...long table in an inner room, was not available to all comers. He received Al Smith. Jack Dempsey got in for a moment. Bernard Mannes Baruch (in silk topper), curly-headed "Sonny" Whitney (who had not won his race for Congress but was supposedly in line for a sub-Cabinet job), Boss McCooey of Brooklyn, President Sam Levy of the Borough of Manhattan-all such, of course, had access. But through all their cordialities and rejoicing, Franklin Roosevelt continued to concentrate on the returns, the living figures of the votes of the people for him-him-to be President...
...George White, onetime gold-rusher in the Klondike, managed to resist the popular tide against the "ins" and hold his office against Republican David Sinton Ingalls, young and wealthy, the Navy's only War ace. At the President's request, Governor-reject Ingalls had left the Hoover sub-Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to try and carry Ohio for Hoover. Rhode Island. Impressed with his strenuous campaign as the "All-Round Man" who, stripped to the waist, lugged stones (TIME, Nov. 7), voters preferred Democrat Theodore Francis Green as Governor to Republican Norman Stanley...