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...succeed Dr. Willard L. Thorp, efficient head of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce who resigned because a Democratic Senate committee refused to approve the appointment of a onetime Republican (TIME, May 21), President Roosevelt last week named another professor of economics: Dr. Claudius T. Murchison of the University of North Carolina...
...counted upon to put up a stubborn fight for his men or else sulkily decline to name any others to office. Franklin D. Roosevelt is a President of a different stamp. Last week the Senate Commerce Committee voted (11- to-5) against his appointment of Dr. Willard Long Thorp as Director of the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. President Roosevelt sidestepped a tussle with the Senate by promptly withdrawing the nomination of Dr. Thorp who thereupon offered his resignation from the post he had been serving since July. From the President he received the following letter...
...office-seekers, at least one of them closely associated with the Hoover Administration. . . . He has discharged his duties with admirable ability, fidelity and success. . . . "Pending the determination of whether or not it will be possible to secure acceptance of the directorship of the bureau by a man of Dr. Thorp's calibre and his confirmation at the hands of the Senate. I reserve consideration of my own future relation to the department...
...President, not wanting to lose a second good man, hastily issued an executive order authorizing Assistant Secretary Dickinson to take over Dr. Thorp's job until a successor was named. This was a direct blow to Assistant Director Amory who would ordinarily have become acting director. A further blow followed when Dr. Dickinson removed all power over personnel from Mr. Amory, made himself guardian over one of the richest plum trees in Washington and defied hungry politicians to do their worst...
...world knows by now the top men in President Roosevelt's Brain Trust -George F. Warren, James Harvey Rogers, Rexford Guy Tugwell, Mordecai Ezekiel, John Dickinson, Francis B. Sayre, Willard L. Thorp, Isador Lubin, Milburn L. Wilson, William I. Myers. Below this top layer of the Brain Trust, however, are scores & scores of young unknowns in almost every department of the Government. Underlings on the payroll who rarely if ever see their President, they do most of the New Deal spade work for which their superiors in the spotlight get the credit. Some are assistant professors with new economic...