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...grimness mellows into dignity, and the pearls, uncovered, hang in a double strand of gleaming white. A friend of hers is Dr. Hubert Work, Republican National Committee chairman. Not a friend of hers is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Representative-at-Large-Elect of Illinois. She is Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, and she received last week a hearty endorsement-by-rumor to be the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet...
...rumors which last week named Mrs. Hert as potential Secretary of the Interior gave as her qualifications for this position business ability, political experience, services to the party. Widow of the late Alvin T. Hert of Kentucky, for many years National Committeeman, Mrs. Hert has been since 1924 vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, State chairman of the Republican women of Kentucky, and in charge of organization of Republican women throughout the country. She is also chairman of the board of the American Creosoting Co., founded by her husband, and is said to have increased its business 30% within...
Believers in the Hert rumor apparently felt that a woman in the Cabinet would please women voters, and that Mrs. Hert was the logical woman to be chosen. The general opinion is, however, that the rumor has little basis. It was noticed that Dr. Work, widely quoted as the chief exponent of the Hert cause, last week issued a sharp statement deploring "publicity"' given to "conjectures" concerning the Cabinet, and disclaiming any influence in its selection. The doctor was so emphatic as to suggest the inference that he had been scolded again...
Engagement Denied. Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Louisville, Ky., vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Dr. Hubert Work of Pueblo, Col., chairman of the Republican National Committee; by Mrs. Hert...
Another school of thought interpreted the Fess appointment as a studied rebuff to Hooverism. The committee members who made the appointment were predominantly un-Hooverish, including New York's Hilles, Connecticut's Roraback, Mrs. Hert of Kentucky and David W. Mulvane of Kansas, besides Chairman Butler. Senator Fess had energetically abetted the anti-Hoover campaign of his dead Ohio colleague, Senator Willis. Now that Senator Willis was gone, the elevation of his oldtime professor and friend seemed more calculated than sentimental...