National Affairs: Hoover's Hope

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Two members of the Coolidge sub-cabinet—William Joseph Donovan and Henry Herrick Bond—lately formed a law firm in Washington. They called the partnership Donovan & Bond. It made a hole in the Treasury—the post Mr. Bond had occupied as Assistant Secretary. Last week President Hoover very neatly filled that hole by the appointment of Walter Ewin Hope, Manhattan lawyer. Princeton men throughout the land felt happier because their college had been accorded greater representation in official Washington by this "drafting" of one of their distinguished members.

At the Kansas City convention last year, Lawyer Hope was much in the company of fellow-Manhattanites who were standing pat for Coolidge, groaning over Hooverism. When Jeremiah Milbank of Manhattan, one of Lawyer Hope's great & good clients, was made Eastern Fiscal Agent of the Hoover campaign, Lawyer Hope and many another Manhattanite felt better. Now, 16 months after Kansas City, Lawyer Hope is well content to have direct supervision of: Internal Revenue collections, national banks (through the Comptroller of the Currency), the making of all money, the Secret Service.

Assistant Secretary Hope, 50, was born in Philadelphia. From Princeton he was graduated in 1901. During the War he served as a dollar-a-year-man in the U. S. Fuel Administration. His two chief interests: New York charities; Princeton University. For three years (1914-17) he was chairman of the Princeton Graduate Council. For another three years (1924-27) he was president of the Princeton Club of New York. He is a university life trustee member of its Administrative Committee, chairman of its Library Committee.