Youth

Before Secretary Mellon sailed for Europe recently he announced that Seymour Parker Gilbert, Jr., Under Secretary of the Treasury, who had tendered his resignation, consented to remain in office, and assume the duties of Acting Secretary of the Treasury until his superior returned from abroad. This invited attention to a " boy wonder "; for Mr. Gilbert is only 30. Eleven years ago he began to dangle his Rutgers Phi Beta Kappa key. Three years later he took his law degree at Harvard cum laude. Even in...

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