Young Men Switch

Franklin Roosevelt's sub-Cabinet is a political caravansary through whose portals bright young men are continually entering and departing. Last week's comings & goings in the sub-Cabinet:

Wideman. For "impelling business reasons," Francis James Wideman of West Palm Beach sent the President his resignation as Assistant Attorney General. With the resignation went a memorandum from Attorney General Cummings pointing out that Mr. Wideman had won ten of the eleven cases he argued last year before the Supreme Court. Although the case which he lost was the AAA decision, there came back a note: "This record of Wideman is grand! Congratulate him for me. F. D. R."

Jackson. To take Mr. Wideman's place, Attorney General Cummings snaffled one of the brightest of the New Deal's young lawyers from the Treasury Department: Robert Houghwout Jackson, the Bureau of Internal Revenue's Assistant General Counsel. Rated the No. 1 prosecutor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, this Jamestown, N. Y. attorney had personal charge of the Government's attempt to collect $3,000,000 of additional taxes from Andrew William Mellon (TIME, April 15 et ante).

Taylor. To succeed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Roberts, resigned, President Roosevelt appointed Wayne Chatfield Taylor of Chicago. Two-thirds of the new Assistant Secretary's name come from his great-granduncle, an immensely wealthy Cincinnatian named Wayne Chatfield. When Wayne Chatfield died he left his money to his grandnephew, the Assistant Secretary's father, Hobart Chatfield Taylor, on condition that the legatee add Chatfield to his last name. Hobart Chatfield Taylor thereupon became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor, distinguishing himself by writing books (The Idle Born, Fame's Pathway), collecting a large number of decorations from foreign governments, and becoming the butt of some of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth's best jokes. Wayne Chatfield Taylor, his eldest son, who repudiates his father's lucrative hyphen, played on Yale's football team in 1915, held a job in Charles G. Dawes's late bank, for a time was a partner in Chicago's Field, Glore & Co., was appointed an executive assistant to George Peek in the early days of AAA.

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