Council of State Governments convenes. Washington D.C. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings was principal speaker today as the third General Assembly of the Council of State Goverments convened at the Mayflower Hotel. He is shown with delegates to the councils. Left to right: Commissioner William Ellis of New Jersey, Chairman of the Inter-State Commission on Social Security; Judge Richard Hartshorne of New Jersey; Attorney General Cummings, Governments and former Governor of Indiana; and Gov. Gordon Browning of Tennessee