Appointments

At intervals during the bank crisis. President Roosevelt found time to work on his list of appointments to the sub-Cabinet, foreign service, boards & bureaus. At the week's end his list of nominations and near-nominations contained the following:

William Phillips of Boston, Harvard Overseer and career diplomat, to be Under Secretary of State. (Confirmed by the Senate.)

Wilbur John Carr and Professor Raymond Moley (still commuting to his classes at Columbia last week) to be Assistant Secretaries of State. (Confirmed.)

Another Columbia pedagog, Rexford Guy Tugwell, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.

Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney, Wyoming politico, for First Assistant Postmaster General.

Henry Morgenthau Jr. of Manhattan, son of the onetime Ambassador to Turkey, publisher of the American Agriculturist, was appointed and confirmed as a member of the Federal Farm Board.

In choosing an important appointee, a President must measure the candidate's loyalty against his capability. A man both loyal and capable was at hand for Ambassador to France. Jesse Isidor Straus began working for President Roosevelt two years ago when he reported that a canvass of 1928 Democratic convention delegates was favorable to the Roosevelt cause. As president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (cash dry goods), which he has headed since his father Isidor went down with the Titanic, he was one of the first businessmen to board the Roosevelt bandwagon.

The fact that Jesse Isidor Straus speaks French fluently undoubtedly weighed in favor of his being sent to France instead of staying home as Secretary of Commerce. Aged 60, he takes his job of a Harvard Overseer seriously. Even more seriously does he take the job of being patriarch to his clan of children and grandchildren, whom he keeps together in a Park Avenue apartment building which he built for the purpose. He is also patriarchal toward his 8,000 employes at Macy's, who call him "Mr. Jesse." Last week Mr. Jesse summoned them, asked them to write letters to their, legislators protesting a general sales tax. If they did not do so, he implied, some of them would lose their jobs.

All week Robert Worth Bingham, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, scurried around the State Department, preparing himself for the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's. Because of the imminent Debt negotiations, he was scheduled to be one of the first Ambassadors shipped off.

Claude Gernade Bowers of Manhattan, journalist, political historian (The Tragic Era) was pronounced persona grata at Madrid. Owl-eyed Mr. Bowers keynoted the 1928 Democratic Convention ("To your tents. O Israel!").

Josephus Daniels, the new President's Wartime chief in the Navy Department, was reported to have two appointment choices. He could either remain at home and head the proposed Bureau of Transportation (rail, air & water), or he could represent the Administration in Mexico. He chose Mexico.

The Hearst Press boomed Radical Governor Philip Fox La Follette of Wisconsin for Ambassador to Russia, if & when the U. S. S. R. is recognized. (Quietly being boomed for Assistant Secretary of the Navy was Publisher Hearst's plump son George.)

Norman Armour and Paul Knabenshue, career diplomats, were reappointed to Haiti and Iraq, respectively. Lieut.-Colonel Julian L. Schley, whose nomination by President Hoover had been held up along with those of all other Hoover nominees, was continued in nomination to be Governor of the Panama Canal Zone.

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