National Affairs: Static

Those who looked for quick, if not wholesale changes in the Cabinet after President Coolidge was confirmed in office for four years more by the November election, have been surprised. Only one Cabinet change now appears imminent—the appointment of a successor to Secretary of Agriculture Howard M. Gore, who is to be inaugurated as Governor of West Virginia on Mar. 4.

Both Secretary of Labor Davis and Secretary of War Weeks had spoken of retiring, but so far there have been no developments. No one at all seems likely to be asked to resign. Evidently the President believes he has a smoothly...

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