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...President Hoover last week was having trouble finding suitable men to appoint to the reorganized Federal Power Commission and Tariff Commission. His supply of "new patriots" who would change lucrative private jobs for $12,000 public offices was running short. He had named Lieut. General Edgar Jadwin (retired) as chair-man of the Power Commission, only to have that onetime Chief of Army Engineers decline the appointment because of a cry of "Power Trust!" against him in the Senate. Of the other Commissioners the President explained: "They are required by law to be mixed in political color and must...
...strongest terms one friendly nation can use to another, the British note voiced fear that, if the European Union is established, "the wider interests both of Europe and of the world may be seriously endangered." Instead of forming a European Union, concluded His Majesty's Government, why not merely appoint a "European Committee" of the present League of Nations...
Next day he held a secret consistory to appoint new cardinals. The College of Cardinals should have, but rarely has had, 70 members. Before the consistory this week the college numbered 59-29 Italians, 30 of other nationalities. How many would be named and who they would be remained of course a cardinal, consistorial secret until after the preconization...
...though angry Indians are sure to proclaim a veritable stench. Startling and definitely courageous is the proposal that the police - always the subject most rigidly "reserved" to British administration under Dyarchy - shall now be placed within the scope of native officialdom. Today the governor of a province may not appoint a native as his minister of police, but under the Commission's plan he could, and as time passed he would gradually be expected and finally forced by public opinion to appoint a native...
...propose, therefore, to appoint a committee of outstanding men who would review these questions and advise upon them...