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Show HI A SEAT (T) vv in the C V 1 v HEN BY MONGKNTUAU JB. (Editor's note: Thia la the fourteenth four-teenth of a aeries of articles briefly brief-ly picturing possible members of the Roosevelt cabinet) Henry Mongenthau Jr.. a comparative compara-tive newcomer on the national farm scene, but frequently mentioned aa a possible choice tor secretary of agriculture, agri-culture, haa bean strongly Indorsed oy miawesi ana eouwiern cooperative coopera-tive Marketing associations. These business groups, praising what they term Mongenthau a eagac-Ity eagac-Ity and generalship, have gone directly di-rectly to President-elect Roosevelt to request his appointment and In numerous nu-merous cases have solicited and often of-ten obtained the support of state leaders of national farm organizations. organiza-tions. Western grain interests, particularly, par-ticularly, have been active. The Morgenthau boom dates from hie appeerance in Washington aa Mr. Rooaevelt'a repreaenUtlve at the conference con-ference of farm leaders which resulted re-sulted In their approval of the volun-Ury volun-Ury domestic allotment plan of farm relief. During the Roosevelt regime In New York, Morgenthau waa the liaison liai-son officer between farm groups and the Democratic governor and Republican Repub-lican legislature. He la publisher of the American Agricultural Ag-ricultural a dairy farmer and waa a member of Mr. Roosevelt's agricultural agricul-tural advisory committee. |