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Show CABINET OFFICIAL IS 77 YEARS OLD Washington. Aug. 16. "Tama Jim" Wilson, secretary of agriculture and the oldest man" In ProsSdent Taft's cabinet, today enjoyed his seventy-seventh seventy-seventh birthday. Secretary Wilson said he was looking forward to quitting public life on March 5 next, so that he might go home among his grand children, "don his overalls nnd move around among the common people." Mr. Wilson has exceeded by four years the record for long service In the cabinet and under his regime the scope of tho department of agriculture agricul-ture has been widely extended. |