Last week President Hoover made his fourth and last appointment to the directorate of his Reconstruction Finance Corp. By law his choice had to be a Democrat, by preference a Westerner. Appointee was Judge Wilson McCarthy of Salt Lake City, who had the backing of Utah's Democratic Senator King and Republican Senator Smoot. Cattleman, banker, lawyer, Director McCarthy was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention where he boosted the Brown Derby.
Confirmed by the Senate were the appointments of Charles Gates Dawes to be president of R. F. C. and Jesse Holman...
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