Ike Names Overseer Weeks U.S. Secretary of Commerce

Sinclair Weeks '14, member of the Board of Overseers, was named secretary of commerce in Eisenhower's cabinet yesterday. Martin B. Durkin of Chicago as secretary of labor and Walter Williams of Seattle as undersecretary of commerce complete his cabinet.

Chairman of the Republican Finance Committee for three years, Weeks has been in the Senate since 1944, when he was appointed to fill the place of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, who left for the Army. Weeks has served as GOP national committeeman since 1940. Previously chairman of the state committee, he was one of Eisenhower's earliest backers, and is a director of several Boston firms.