THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jul. 29, 1935

By midsummer in any ordinary year the President has said good-by to some six out of the ten members of his Cabinet as they and he part for long, needful vacations. Not until last week, however, did Franklin Roosevelt bid farewell to the first Cabinet vacationist, James Aloysius Farley. The prolonged session of Congress (see p. 10) provided no reason for detaining the Postmaster General. Having ordered the issuance of a purple 3ยข stamp commemorating the centennial of Michigan's admission to the Union in 1837,* he left on his desk only one...

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