Show SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY 1 4 As a result of the recent lecent financial crisis 1 the name of gorge B cortelyou secretary of the treasury has become qu quite I 1 te prominent before the public his handling of the situation has brought him nothing but praise from all quarters cortelyou first came before the public notice as stenographer to president mckinley in 1895 since then his rise has been rapid he was the first secretary of the department of commerce and labor recently established and before assuming his present office he held the post of postmaster general |