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¶President Roosevelt filled the Federal Reserve Board with the appointments of John Jacob Thomas, Nebraska farmer-lawyer, and Menc S. Szymczak, Comptroller of Chicago, good friend of the late martyred Mayor Tony Cermak. Other Presidential nominations: Maryland's William Stanley to be Assistant to the Attorney General; Utah's Harold M. Stephen, Florida's Frank J. Wideman to be Assistant Attorneys General; Tennessee's John Harcourt Alexander Morgan* and Wisconsin's David E. Lilienthal to be Tennessee Valley Authority directors; Pennsylvania's Carroll Miller, brother-in-law of Demo-cratic Boss "Joe" Guffey, to be an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. ¶A White House caller last week was pretty Margaret Kruis, who was wounded in the head last February when Joe Zangara attempted to assassinate the President-elect at Miami. President Roosevelt recalled that he had visited Miss Kruis at the hospital after the shooting, found her greatly upset because some of her hair had been snipped off to reach the wound. ¶All in one day last week the following members of the Roosevelt Administration stepped out of their official roles to give the following public performances: Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, an article in the New York Times on the new farm bill's operation: Assistant Secretary of State Moley, an article for the McNaught Syndicate on why he was writing more articles on "The State of the Nation"; Celeste Jedel, private secretary of Assistant Secretary Moley, an article in the New York Times magazine section on how the State Department is run; Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. railroad adviser to Reconstruction Finance Corp., an article in the New York Times on the new securities bill; Louis McHenry Howe, Secretary to the President, a radio interview on budget-balancing. Secretary Howe con- cluded his broadcast with a half-sobbing account of how some woman had wanted to name her kittens after him but he had lost her letter—and, oh, he was so terribly upset about those poor little kittens. ¶"I love the U. S. Navy more than any other branch of the Government," confided President Roosevelt at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis last week as he handed out diplomas to 432 graduating midshipmen.†
* Named in 1922 for the 26th U. S. President, not the 32nd. -Not to be confused with Ohio's Arthur Ernest Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
† Because of naval cuts only 219 of these were commissioned as ensigns.