Mr. Hoover's

Even before election, correspondents were eyeing friends and associates of Mr. Hoover in order to foresee his Cabinet. After the election, thousands of speculative words were penned. No one knew, but a good many thought he would retain Secretaries Mellon (Treasury) Davis (War) and New (Postmaster-General). And nearly everyone thought that the next Attorney-General would not be the incumbent who is Mr. Coolidge's good friend, John Garibaldi Sargent; but would be Mr. Hoover's good friend William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan,* who is now assistant to Mr. Sargent. For Secretary of State, Mr. Hoover would consider, it was believed, the claims and abilities of his chief campaigner, Senator William Edgar Borah; and also, of Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, and brightest jewel in the Coolidge foreign policy.

For Secretary of Agriculture, no man seemed more logical or deserving than James W. Good, the midwestern Hoover-izer who stopped and more than stopped the "farm revolt." Always cheerful but never overconfident, Mr. Good said, on the day before election, that estimating votes in advance was like driving a wagonload of bullfrogs to a pond--you couldn't tell from the noise how many had jumped out.

*Son of red-haired Irish Tim of Buffalo, there had been a day in France when, in the full regalia of Colonel, and flashing his automatic he had bellowed: "Come on! They can't hit me and they won't hit you. Let's go." The men he thus summoned at the battle near Landres and St. Georges, he had made iron by drilling them to fight each other naked to the waist and to run miles in bare feet. A poet, Joyce Kilmer, had followed him jubilantly unto death. "Hard boiled'' they called him and terribly "Wild."