National Affairs: Hoover Halfway

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the Plain People, Herbert Clark Hoover still has unbounded faith in himself and the ultimate justification of his own policies and methods. What gives him courage and turns his face hopefully toward the future is the certain knowledge that better economic times will bring him better political times. Well within the realm of possibility —in fact most Republicans count on it— is a mighty upturn toward prosperity which will blot out the President's misfortunes and missteps of 1930-31 and restore him, sobered from his bout with adversity, to the peaks of popularity in time for the 1932 election.

The Hoover Cabinet of 1931:

State—Henry Lewis Stimson of New York.

Treasury—Andrew William Mellon of Pennsylvania.

War—Patrick Jay Hurley of Oklahoma.

Justice—William DeWitt Mitchell of Minnesota.

Post Office—Walter Folger Brown of Ohio.

Navy—Charles Francis Adams of Massachusetts.

Interior—Ray Lyman Wilbur of California.

Agriculture—Arthur Mastick Hyde of Missouri.

Commerce—Robert Patterson Lament of Illinois.

Labor—William Nuckles Doak of Virginia.

U.S. Ambassadors today (all appointed by President Hoover):

Cuba—Harry Frank Guggenheim.

France—Walter Evans Edge.

Germany—Frederic Moseley Sackett.

Great Britain—Charles Gates Dawes.

Italy—John Work Garrett.

Japan—William Cameron Forbes.

Mexico—Joshua Reuben Clark Jr.

Peru—Fred Morris Dearing.

Poland—John North Willys.

Spain—Irwin Boyle Laughlin.

Miscellaneous appointments by President Hoover:

Chief Justice of U. S.—Charles Evans Hughes.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court —Owen Josephus Roberts.

Tariff Commission Chairman—Henry Prather Fletcher.

Solicitor General of the U. S.—Thomas Day Thacher.

Civil Service Commission President— Thomas Edward Campbell.

Chief of Staff, U. S. A—General Douglas MacArthur.

Chief of Naval Operations—Admiral William Veazil Pratt.

Governor of the Federal Reserve Board —Eugene Meyer Jr.