Paying the U. S. $90, each member of the Hoover Cabinet last week had his heavy black leather & mahogany chair taken out of the White House and crated for shipment to his home as a souvenir.* Into the spacious, many-windowed Cabinet room were trundled ten brand new chairs for Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fill with his ten chief advisers. On the high stiff back of each chair was a metal plate naming the Cabinet job but not the jobholder.
After months of conferences and cogitations the new President at last picked nine...
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