THE CABINET: Recasting

Some one—some wit—better endowed with sharpness than with taste, composed a little rhyme:

Who, who, who remembers ?

Harding's Cabinet had ten members:

Poor old Denby had to resign,

Then there were nine;

Such was Harry Daugherty's fate,

Then there were eight;

H. C. Wallace went to Heaven,

Then there were seven;

Hughes was next to quit the mix,

Now there are six;

All the rest are going strong—

How long?

The history of the rhyme is accurate enough. Weeks, Mellon, New, Work, Hoover, Davis remain. Wilbur, whom President Coolidge added to the group as Secretary of the Navy,...