THE CABINET: Lost, Found

Two months ago the U. S. Treasury Department lost three words. Last week the three lost words were found. They had caused the British Commonwealth of Nations to rebuke the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury; the United States of America to snub the British Commonwealth of Nations; and the U. S. Secretary of State to be interrupted in a round of golf.

Writing last March (TiME, March 28) to John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton, Andrew W. Mellon, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, said, according to the published, uncontradicted version...

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