POLITICAL NOTES: Footballer's Fancy

Footballer's Fancy

Fortnight ago Coach Herbert Clark Hoover officially sent the Republican team out to win the national elections of 1936 (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week Republicans were snapping the ball around, barking signals, racing up & down the field in great style. The fact that their Democratic opponents were still loafing in the locker room in no way diminished the scope or ardor of the GOP's attack.

Stellar performance of the week was put on by the flashy tackle of Harvard's 1910 team, snaggle-toothed Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York. Congressman from Franklin Roosevelt's own Dutchess County, Ham Fish has long yearned to oust his neighbor from the White House. Returning from a nationwide, 50-speech speaking tour, last week he "informally" announced to the Hearst Press that he was an aspirant for the GOPresidential nomination, a scoop which made news in Washington only to hermits. Aglow with political imagination, he also released a non-partisan slate from which, if nominated and elected, he planned to. draw his Cabinet. Some selections:

Secretary of State: Senator Borah, Senator Johnson, Bainbridge Colby, John W. Davis, Newton D. Baker.

Secretary of the Treasury: Senator Glass, Professor Charles Goodspeed of the University of Chicago, Republican Treasurer George Getz.

Secretary of War: Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, Edward A. Hayes, onetime National Commander of the American Legion.

Secretary of Commerce: Herbert Hoover or Oilman Frank Phillips.

Secretary of Labor: William Green, Matthew Woll, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Mrs. Julia Grant Cantacuzene, granddaughter of the 18th President.