POLITICS
Politics Notes from Ml ere and There About Solons and Citizens By 'OBSERVER' FIFTH COLUMN MENACE THE director of the American Legion's Americanism committee, H. L. Chaillaux, told a house...
...Justice Frankfurter regard it as odd that they should have chosen such different paths through life...
...She wanted to know why it was that they followed different paths after they left...
...is running for a position in the Republican delegation to the state convention, May 23 and 24, but he doesn't like it at all...
...In all his campaigns he had the backing of rail workers...
...In the recent primaries he won by 2,000 votes, much more than his previous margin...
...THE LIGHTER SIDE The by-line on the following goes to Henry Zon, Federated Press correspondent' On the lighter side of life there are two supreme court stories in circulation here...
...AYERS APPOINTMENT President Roosevelt has done an unusual thing in sending to the senate the reappointment of William A. Ayres as member of the Federal Trade commission, for a four-year term that does not start until late in September...
...Both are reasonably authentic...
...Resented is the implication that Canadian diplomatic, post lacks importance...
...Whereupon three of Mr...
...The U. S. court of appeals in Washington, D. C. held last week that there is as great a need "for freedom of scientific research and exposition" in the field of nudism as elsewhere...
...J. D. Roberts under a "Let the People Vote League...
...president of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation, as Republican candidate for President...
...He also made public a letter of resignation to Roy E. Larsen, president of Time, Inc., which publishes Fortune...
...Farley also said: "I am satisfied that the foreign situation is being ably handled by President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull and that they will keep the country from being Involved...
...Feeling is that whole affair was planned from beginning as political build-up for Mr...
...They added that Mr...
...The real fact: the state department has had difficulty finding someone both suitable and willing to take the Ottawa post...
...During the court's discussion »f the Alabama and California mcketing cases—subsequently the court held the anti-plcketing ordinances in those places invalid— McReyii'ilds sat silent...
...Schuyler C. Houston, a farmer of near Mlsh-awaka, Ind...
...Now the crowd is back again, turning on the heat and pulling the wires...
...Shipyard owners privately concede little chance for early legislation to change 10 per cent limitation on naval construction profits so as to make up prior losses...
...L. B. Schwellenbach of Washington...
...Wendell L. Willkie power trust executive who Is booming his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president is now an enrolled Republican in New York state, but in 1932 he contributed $150 to the Democratic rational committee for the election if President Roosevelt...
...Ayres' reappointment was hailed with delight by Progressives...
...George H. Bender, rongressman-at-large from Ohio, is sending out copies of a speech he made pttacking the Tennessee Valley authority...
...Willkie's personal friends in Ohio sent him a telegram offering to refund his $150 contribution inasmuch as non-holders of utility holding company stock, they liked the New Deal...
...The fight, which ended with passage of the bill in a watered down form, is remembered now chiefly because of the powerful lobby that op-orated afralnst the bill...
...Three years later Mr...
...He also named John Monroe Johnson ol North Carolina as member of the Interstate Commerce Commission for tte unexpired term of Marion M. Caskie, who recently resigned, and reappointed Clyde E. Seavey as member of the Federal Power Commission...
...JAPANESE LABOR PARTY A labor party with democratic principles has been barred in Japan on the ground that its formation would arouse class consciousness and impairment of national unity in war time . . . Secretary Perkins, testifying In Washington on the very day on which "The Grapes of Wrath" received the Pulitzer Prize as the most distinguished novel of 1939, proposed that Mr...
...D'Alesandro Is a militant champion of the Wagner labor law . . . Labor groups in Detroit are protesting the hiring of an attorney from a firm of Liberty League lawyers to teach labor law in the city owned Wayne university law school and filed their objections with the board of education . . . Roosevelt forces in California are cheering the three to one victory at the recent primary and are increasing their urgings that the president seek a third term . . . Pennsylvania Democrats are supporting Gov...
...WASHINGTON WHISPERS From "Washington Whispers" In the United States News: House Republicans are suggesting that Joe Martin has been getting fewer results as Republican leader since he allowed himself to be bitten by the presidential bug...
...A two-thirds vote is necessary to override a veto.....Russell W. Davenport has announced his resignation as managing editor of Fortune to devote his full time to furthering the nomination of Wendell L. Willkie...
...Thomas D'Alesandro from the third Maryland district...
...Justice McReynolds is supposed to have said, "is pickets...
...wh?n the mule named "Hull," plodding slowly but steadily, crossed the finish line first...
...She told the La Follette civil liberties committee what it had already learned through field investigations: that neither the hours nor the wages of these laborers were regulated, that their living standards were low, that health conditions among them were bad, that their children had few opportunities for education...
...The envelopes are "franked"—sent out at government expense . . . The WPA has designated this week as "This Work Pays Your Community Week" during which WPA professional service projects throughout the country are open to public inspection...
...Progressives rallied to his support, and the president showed his confidence in Ayres by sending the name to a senate that is expected to confirm him without question...
...This contribution made, he lapsed into silence...
...Justice James Clark McReynolds, the sole remaining diehard on the court who, of late, has confined his activities to noting a dlscnt at the bottom of decisions...
...Though plan is favored by navy officials, congressmen are dubious...
...While at Harvard, it is said Frankfurter was approached by one of those woman who follow celebrities around and gush ull over themselves and the celebrity If given the chance...
...Roosevelt without comment...
...The court reversed a previous court decision that a book on nudism was obscene and subject to confiscation . . . The Seattle Grange News in a recent issue exposed the sending of propaganda material from the office of State Sen...
...For instance, ;:he recalled, there Was Walter I.lppman, now an extremely conservative columnist for I he New York Herald Tribune and other papers, and John Reed, a newspaper man who was one of the founders of the American Communist party and who is now buried outside the Kremlin wall in Moscow...
...Before he was named to the commission, Ayres served several terms as a member of the house from Kansas, and made an excellent record on labor and other progressive legislation...
...The Republican minority, effective last year, has been showing few results in 1940...
...Repeal or modification of the act would make it possible for American money to be used to help the Allies against Nazi Germany . . . Postmaster James A. Farley, in Milwaukee last week for a speech, told reporters, "It won't make any difference whom the Republicans nominate this year because they haven't a chance to win...
...This particular lady attempted to stmt a discussion with Frankfurter concerning the caliber of Harvard graduates...
...The President vetoed the bill on the ground that it would cast about $7,000,000 in special payments to men whose extra service already had been recognized by the award of medals and extra pay...
...He had vetoed the bill twice before, in 1935, and 1938...
...Newspapers publishers formed an important part of that lobby...
...The commissioners, however, ruled that he must run since no withdrawal was filed before the deadline...
...The decisions nullifying the ordinances bore the notation to the affect that McReynolds dissented . . . The second yarn, less authentic, concerns Mr...
...Eight mules were entered, each bearing the name of a presidential candidate . . . The "Wheeler" mule threw its rider . . . The mules named "Dewey" and "Taft" walked onward side by side, as if they were a working-team, then stopped in the middle of the race and nothing could urge them on . . . The prophetic correspondents discovered a note of symbolism...
...Cromwell's race for New Jersey senatorship...
...The American Civil Liberties union is supporting bills whirh would prevent federal and state judges from denying applications for citizenship of aliens who have been on relief...
...NYA Administrator Aubrey Williams announces . . . Chairman A. J. May, Democrat, of the house military affairs committee, favors relaxing the Johnson act which forbids American loans to nations that have defaulted on their World war debts to this country...
...Willkie used to be a good Democrat before he became a plutocrat . . . OVERRIDE FDR VETO Only three senators dissented from overwhelming action by the senate overriding a veto by President Roosevelt of a pension bill for the benefit of a special group of veterans of the Philippine insurrection...
...Rexford G. Tug-well, then an up and coming New Dealer, was the target of the economic royalists of the day and when the administration forces in the house introduced a measure providing for strict regulation of the food and drug traffic, the measure was promtly termed the Tugwell bill by its opponents...
...NY A JOB HUNT The 30 day job hunt conducted by the National Youth administration in Illinois, which has just ended, succeeded in placing 11.200 young people in private jobs...
...He has directed many of the exposes of business skullduggery during the New Deal...
...Justice Frankfurter, formerly professor at the Harvard law school...
...Baltimore labor is hailing the reelection of Rep...
...The senate voted by 76 to 3, with Senators Bark-ley, Hughes and Smathers dissenting, to go along with prior House action in reaffirming a bill to pay special mileage and allowances to several thousand who served in the Philippines after the Spanish-American war ended...
...Politics Notes from Ml ere and There About Solons and Citizens By 'OBSERVER' FIFTH COLUMN MENACE THE director of the American Legion's Americanism committee, H. L. Chaillaux, told a house committee last, week that Communists In America are a "fifth column'' menace Chaillaux spoke in favor of a bill to deport alien Communists and sympathizers . . . From Leonard Lyons column m the New York Post: "Last week-end the members of the National Press club in Washington held their annual picnic which featured a Mule-race...
...Their objective is lo include the Federal Truck Commission in the list of agencies to be covered by the Walter-Logan bill, recently passed by the house...
...What more could be expected on family income of $300 to $400 a year, derived from six months of work...
...Henry Zon writes from Washington: "Back in 1935 congress was in an uproar over the so-called Tugwell pure food and drug bill...
...And I am certain that every step necessary will be taken to see that this country is prepared for war...
...The propaganda was aimed at the setting up of public utility districts for the distribution of publicly produced electric current...
...Steinbeck's migratory workers on industrialized farms be taken under the protecting wing of state and federal social legislation...
...At one point, however, he roused himself...
...Though they cannot say so openly, high-placed Canadian officials are angry over the short-term appointment of James Cromwell as U. S. Minister to Ottawa...
...Willkie said that he was "a iife long Democrat" but that he regretted it...
...Houston appealed to the election commissioners to remove his name from the ballot...
...J. M. Coffee and Sen...
...L. C. Stark of Missouri as candidate for president if FDR declines to run...
...He said he had "never mixed in politics and doesn't intend to do so now...
...A proposal of Iowa Democratic leaders that the state convention send its 22 delegates to the national convention instructed for Secretary Wallace but carrying with them an endorsement of the Roosevelt administration was received by Pres...
...Says John Paine: "While we are waiting for the census returns, it is encouraging to know that the wild duck population has increased to 56.000.000 a gain of 6.000,000 In two years...
...Latest of the rumors anent the third term is that Presideni Roosevelt has signed a contract to write for a national magazine, effective 1941, contingent upon the proviso he will not be in government service at that time...
...The question now is, how many representatives should they have in congress...
...Pick-els...
...Madam," Frankfurter Is alleged to have replied, "I am not sure that it Is not preferable to be buried outside the Kremlin than inside the Herald Tribune...
...The bill is authored Jointly by Rep...
...Lippman and Reed were Harvard contemporaries, this lady said and didn't Mr...
...The first concerns Mr...
...Because Ayres refused to "pull his punches," Hearst Interests launched a campaign to prevent his reappointment...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 21
