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...Confirmed the nomination of Clarence M. Young as Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of Aeronautics to succeed William P. MacCracken, resigned...
...Greeting Commander Eckener with a praising message from President Hoover was retiring Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, William Patterson MacCracken. Mr. MacCracken with Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chief of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, and Dr. Otto Carl Kiep, counselor of the German Embassy, took Dr. Eckener by plane to Washington to exchange respects with President Hoover and Cabinet officers. As soon as courtesy visits could be paid. Dr. Eckener rushed by motor to Dr. Kiep's home where gemutlich he snuggled into a featherbed and slept from twilight to dawn, his first careless sleep in three weeks...
...Devereaux, of Woodside, L. I., Mrs. Devereaux, and Edward J. Reiss of New York (at Boston, racing from Philadelphia). Injured: Lady Mary (Sophie Elliott-Lynn) Heath, near-sighted (practicing a side-slip landing at Cleveland); Edwin Kirk, Great Lakes Aircraft mechanic, Lady Heath's passenger; William Patterson MacCracken, retiring Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics (rushing from the races to greet the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst); Norma Stevens of Columbus, Ohio (parachute jumping); N. K. Lankford, Navy flyer (crashed at Lorain, Ohio...
...President made up his mind last week on an appointment pending since Inauguration when William Patterson MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, asked to be relieved. Mr. MacCracken, 40, lawyer, has been in the department for three years and handled his aeronautics duties so well that commercial aviation has been inviting him into lucrative business. However he has continued in office, including an arduous two-month inspection of European Airways (TIME, Aug. 26) until the Chief had time to consider a successor...
Last week the President summoned to the executive offices Col. Clarence Marshall Young,* 40, lawyer, Director of the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Civil Aeronautics. Did Mr. Young want the job of Assistant Secretary? Of course he did. So on Oct. 1 he takes his promotion, to Mr. MacCracken's relief...