THE CABINET: Young Men Switch

Franklin Roosevelt's sub-Cabinet is a political caravansary through whose portals bright young men are continually entering and departing. Last week's comings & goings in the sub-Cabinet:

Wideman. For "impelling business reasons," Francis James Wideman of West Palm Beach sent the President his resignation as Assistant Attorney General. With the resignation went a memorandum from Attorney General Cummings pointing out that Mr. Wideman had won ten of the eleven cases he argued last year before the Supreme Court. Although the case which he lost was the AAA decision, there came back a note: "This...

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