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...grave charges was Mr. Mitchell. A small-town lawyer from Springfield, Mo., he became "the original Roosevelt man in Missouri," was rewarded after the New Deal's victory by being made the biggest Missourian in the Roosevelt official family. Early last autumn, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper came to the conclusion that he and Mr. Mitchell could not get along, asked for his resignation. As a sop, Mr. Mitchell was offered a job in the graveyard of RFC's legal department or as Minister to Rumania. But Mr. Mitchell did not want to leave the Department of Commerce...
...then admitted that the Department of Justice had investigated the case and dismissed it for lack of evidence. Most damaging charge Mr. Mitchell brought against higher-ups in the Department was that a man hired at $8,000 a year as a transportation expert served in reality as Secretary Roper's pressagent...
...that point Secretary Roper, who was anxious to get the charade over with so the Senate would confirm his fellow-South Carolinian J. Monroe Johnson as the new Assistant Secretary of Commerce, took the stand. To him his ousted assistant was "of an exceedingly suspicious temperament," responsible for "a veritable log jam" in the Department. Said...
...time since he took office Franklin Roosevelt had to use his Presidential power to fire a member of his sub-Cabinet. The officer who refused to honor the customary request for a resignation was Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ewing Young Mitchell, attorney and anti-machine Democrat from Missouri. Secretary Roper issued a soapy explanation that an engineer rather than a lawyer was required for the .job. got the President to appoint Engineer John Monroe Johnson from Mr. Roper's own South Carolina as Assistant Secretary. Two days after the ouster Attorney Mitchell charged that. "improper favoritism and graft abound...
Last week Secretary of Commerce Roper made public his Department's report on the accident. Based on two weeks of hearings in which 59 witnesses filled 907 pages of testimony, the report blamed the crash principally on bad weather and inaccurate weather reporting by government and company meteorologists, found TWA guilty of five "inexcusable violations" of Federal airline regulations for which it may be fined a maximum of $2,500-the first such fine in U. S. airline history...