Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-03-12 | Page 26 | Don't Want Job, Hoover Replies

DON'T WANT JOB, HOOVER REPIES Tunis Down $50,000 Yearly as Director General of Philadelphia Fair Washington. .March 11. Declaring Declar-ing President HardiiiR had "Strongly . vnressed the wish" that he remain In the cabinet, Secretary Hoover to la I Informed Mayor J. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia ho could not accept lie. director generalship of the SCSulcen-tunnlal SCSulcen-tunnlal exposition, to be held in Philadelphia Phila-delphia In 1926. 10 director genera-fhlp genera-fhlp wan tendered to Mr Hoov day jgu ami his . linatlon of it was so; f rtb In 0 letter: tO M&'yOl Moore, written bj tlx ' S I tary Friday before he left on a western west-ern trip and nuule public toduy at th department of commerce The offer crriod with It a salary of 950,000 S year for five years. I h.-ive had the opportunity of dis-i cussing with President Harding the suggestion that I undertake tho di-j ri , roi generalship of the sesqulconten-nlal sesqulconten-nlal cKposition," said Mr. Hoover. In! his letter. "The president strongly expressed tho wish that I remain In the cabinet and indeed, I feel that having, undertaken the reorganization 1 ot the department of commerce lii tho' hope that I may build It into a greater service to the community, I would not he justified In abandoning that task until it bas reached further advancer ment."