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When the Boston papers headlined the rumored appointment-to-be of ex-Mayor Curley to the Secretaryship of the Navy the other evening, we were glad to see that they had not lost, however grim, their sense of humor. While that cabinet position assumed somewhat of an honorary nature with its last Republican incumbent, it has always been a vital cog in the administration, especially today with war a good deal closer around the corner than prosperity. It has also been one of the few secretaryships about which there have risen no wraiths of corruption. Let us examine genial...
After March 4 Gene Vidal was put into the New Deal as director of air regulation. He was only one of five candidates for the top post of Director of Aeronautics which replaced the Assistant Secretaryship for Aeronautics. Most of his rivals had red-hot political supporters working for them. But Senator Gore, his father-in-law, did not, as many supposed, lift a finger to help him. Gene Vidal was less astonished than his competitors when the final appointment came through...
...than it said was the man himself. As the longtime ranking Democrat on the Senate Naval Affairs Committee he knows more about the detailed operation of the department than most admirals. When he was appointed (because Mr. Roosevelt had promised Virginia a Cabinet job and Carter Glass refused the Secretaryship of the Treasury) few Washingtonians expected great things from him. But in four months he has proved himself a shrewd and aggressive naval chief who runs the department instead of letting the admirals run it. A good mixer, he has known most of them by their first names for years...
...long studied the farm problem at an editorial desk. In 1928 he silently opposed Herbert Hoover; in 1932 he was red-hot for Roosevelt. Iowa Republicans were shocked by his political heresy, set it down to a family grudge dating back to the Wallace-Hoover Cabinet feud. The Secretaryship of Agriculture came to him unsolicited...
Last week Secretary of the Navy Swanson marched into the White House and announced that he had found another worthy Roosevelt for the Assistant Secretaryship that was held by Theodore Sr. (1897-98), by Franklin D. (1913-20), by Theodore Jr. (1921-24), and by T. R. Sr.'s nephew Theodore Douglas Robinson (1924-29). President Roosevelt was said to have had no hand in the selection of Secretary Swanson's "find": Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, 53, a burly, round-faced onetime Marine Corps colonel. The President promptly made the appointment and just as promptly the Senate confirmed...