Lodge & Dodge

This week President-Elect Eisenhower made his first two appointments. As his liaison men in effecting an orderly transfer of the presidency, he named two able men who had been his trusted aides on earlier missions.

His preinauguration observer for all Government departments except the Bureau of the Budget will be Massachusetts' Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Lodge, defeated for re-election last week by Democratic Representative John F. Kennedy, led the Eisenhower-for-President movement from its inception through its most difficult days. The new appointment heightened speculation that Cabot Lodge, 50, will get a key post in the Eisenhower Administration.

To study the budget, Ike named Joseph M. Dodge, 61, president of the Detroit Bank, Michigan's oldest. Republican Dodge has had a series of Government fiscal assignments since 1941, was Ike's financial adviser in Germany in 1945, General MacArthur's adviser on postwar fiscal affairs in Japan. His appointment caused immediate speculation that he will become Ike's budget director.

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