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Counsel Seth Whitley Richardson, 65, is a Republican. A mild-mannered man with a lucrative corporation practice in Washington, he served as an assistant attorney general in the Hoover administration. His boss then was William DeWitt Mitchell, whom he now succeeds as committee counsel. Unlike Mitchell, he will be paid for his services (at the rate of $750 a month...
...Pearl Harbor Committee's mild, punctilious Counsel William DeWitt Mitchell, who served ably and loyally under Republican Presidents Hoover and Coolidge, could no longer hide his impatience. In quiet anger, he announced that he and his assistants would quit their thankless jobs at year...
Died. Dwight Filley Davis, 66, Secretary of War under Coolidge, Governor General of the Philippines under Hoover, threetime (1899-1901) national doubles tennis champion (paired with Holcombe Ward) who donated the famed and much-coveted Davis Cup; after long illness; in Washington...
Steel and Friendship. U.S. Economist Calvin Hoover's recent recommendation that Germany be allowed to keep much of her heavy industry had an unexpected effect. When the U.S. press denounced the Hoover report, the Russians realized the extent of U.S. sentiment for a "hard" peace. In the subsequent efforts to set a temporary level for annual German steel production, the Russians and Americans finally agreed on eight million tons; the British held out for twelve million. The row brought the U.S. and Russian representatives on the Allied Control Council closer together than they had been in weeks. The British...
...honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Louvain, got top marks from Woman's Home Companion readers in a poll of the living Americans they most admired. Runners-up, in order: President Harry S. Truman, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, ex-President Herbert Hoover and Motorman Henry Ford (tied for fifth place), ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, Crooner Bing Crosby and Comedian Bob Hope (also tied...