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...come to discuss with Mr. Roosevelt H.R. 1776, the Lend-Lease Bill (see p. 17). In the comfortable room at the White House, the argument came down to the kind of simple talk any U. S. citizen could understand. Present were Speaker Rayburn, Senators Barkley and George, and Congressmen MacCormack, Bloom and Luther Johnson - and the two Republican leaders: Senator McNary and Congressman Joe Martin. The dialogue was almost as simple as this : Joe Martin: What's your objective, Mr.President - what do you want...
...Commissionership of Immigration, vacant since Daniel W. MacCormack died last January, the President appointed his cousin Laura Delano's husband, James Lawrence Houghteling, onetime vice president and treasurer of the Chicago Daily News...
...Presidential appointment Harry Hines Woodring, onetime Governor of Kansas, became Assistant Secretary of War. President Roosevelt also picked Sumner Wells of Maryland to be an Assistant Secretary of State, Daniel William MacCormack, Scotch-born New York banker, to be Commissioner General of Immigration, Alfred Vernon Dalrymple, California lawyer, to be Director of Prohibition in the Department of Justice and Claude G. Bowers of New York to be Ambassador to Spain. He considered making Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, the first woman to represent the U. S. in an important diplomatic office, as Minister to Denmark...
...made its chairman, held the position until 1926. He was recently Deputy Agent General for Reparation Payments at Berlin. Banker Jay takes his work seriously, served no liquor in his home while he was in the service of his Government. Under him as president is Daniel W. MacCormack who organized and directed Irving Trust's big receivership department, for five years was a member of the U. S. mission charged with straightening out Persian finances...
Opium. Colonel Daniel W. MacCormack of Boston, technical adviser to the Persian government, urged the U. S., France, Germany, Japan, other drug manufacturing countries, to follow Persia in stemming the flow of poppy juice. He said that Persia, following the lead of India, had agreed to reduce the manufacture of opium 10% annually, which, he said, represented a real economic sacrifice since the export of the drug constituted 20% of the export trade and 10% of the government's revenue. No action was taken...