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¶ To succeed Robert Henry Lucas, who resigned to become Executive Director of the G. O. P.. President Hoover appointed David Burnet to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Ten years a tax-collector, Mr. Burnet was promoted from deputy commissioner on merit, not politics.
The committee cast about for a title for Robert Henry Lucas, now Commissioner of Internal Revenue, a Kentuckian of whom the Hooverites expect much. The title "executive assistant to the national chairman" was proposed. Senator Fess complained it was not sufficiently "illuminating and dignified" for Mr. Lucas. Finally chosen was...
6) National Pecan Marketing Association of Brownwood, Tex.; Henry Gaillard Lucas, president.
Selected to replace Mr. Huston as party chairman, at least temporarily, was smallish, solemn, fuss-budgety Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio, who cancelled steamship bookings for a European holiday to take over his new political duties. In imitation of the present Democratic setup, in which National Chairman Raskob yields...
Dr. Francis Ferdinand Lucas, Bell Telephone Co. researcher, told of a new microscope of his invention, so powerful that it will divide a cell 1/3,000 inch in diameter into a 30-story apartment-house-like structure. The lenses have a magnifying ratio of 5,000 : 1. Starting at the...