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George Henry Dern LL.D...
This year Democrats naturally lead. Because of "pressure of affairs" President Roosevelt declined a Rutgers LL.D. but last week Secretaries Dern, Ickes. Perkins and Woodin had time to receive degrees (see below), the last after Syracuse Uni-versity had done some careful pondering. Its College of Fine Arts, oldest of its kind in the U. S., was celebrating its 60th anniversary. It had never given a degree to a nonprofessional, but at last it decided Secretary Woodin is a composer "of high merit." Secretary Wallace was to give the commencement address, nationally broadcast, at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa). Speaker...
Secretary of War. George Henry Dern, 60, got his appointment over the long distance telephone in Salt Lake City just as he was starting for Washington and the Inaugural. His was the wife who let the news out while he napped. Mrs. Dern, mother of five, and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, mother of five, are fast friends...
When long-jawed Mr. Roosevelt met broad-jawed Mr. Dern at a Governors' Conference in 1930, the Governor of New York chanced to remark that he thought the Governor of Utah was of "Cabinet size." Governor Dern has treasured that aside ever since as his promise of a White House seat after March 4. For a time, though, it looked as if party factionalism in Utah would keep him out. When the Dern appointment was announced last week Ormond Ewing, Democratic National Committeeman, declared: ''He won't last more than six months. I'm glad...
Born on a Nebraska farm, George Dern went to the University of Nebraska, played on its championship football team, once had his pants torn completely off in a tackle. Migrating to Utah, he got a job as bookkeeper with a gold mine, learned engineering, helped to invent the Holt-Dern ore roaster. A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, is today one of Utah's wealthier citizens. As a progressive Democrat, he was elected Governor in 1924, re-elected in 1928. A Congregationalist, he gets on well with the Mormons. His favorite parlor game is "Murder." Once...