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Show By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN The recent Republican national committee meeting in Washington gave no indication of a swing to any -one G. 0. P. presidential candi date, but party chieftains have mad up their minds about the man they will have to beat in November. The G. 0. P. high command now is going seriously on the assumption assump-tion that President Roosevelt will seek a third term and is mapping campaign plans accordingly. This was the keynote of the national committee com-mittee meeting here, the specter that haunted every discussion behind be-hind closed doors, over luncheon tables, ta-bles, tavern bars and in hotel lobbies. lob-bies. Omens which have influenced this conclusion in the minds of party leaders are: First the President's switching of the Thanksgiving date. G. O. P. heavy thinkers argue that in breaking this "sacred" tradition, Roosevelt was "conditioning" the voting public for the overturn of another. Second the "weak sister" type of Democratic candidates being promoted pro-moted as Roosevelt successors. Some G. 0. P.-ers believe that Hull. McNutt, et al, are "clay pigeon" candidates put up for purposes of "unflattering comparison" with the President. Another third term harbinger raised in executive session of the national committee is me waning hope for peace" in Europe, which plays right into the hands of third term advocates. Merry-Go-Round. When the President makes a speech he keeps his place on the manuscript with two fingers of his left hand. They move from line to line as he reads down the page. He uses his .right hand to grasp the rostrum. Asked to allow her name to be used as sponsor of a Negro concert in Washington, Mrs. Burton K. IT'S 1910 AND HOW! . . . Mrs. Burt ff'heeler emphatic about this being presidential year. That's her daughter with her. Wheeler, wife of the Montana senator, sena-tor, snapped, "Don't you know better bet-ter than to ask a thing like that in a presidential year?"; and hung up. In preparation for the forthcoming congressional primaries, the Town-sendites Town-sendites have set up a special committee com-mittee to pass on all candidates. Head of the body is Dr. Francis Townsend. Other members are his young son, Robert, and L. W. Jef-fery, Jef-fery, vice president of the movement. move-ment. RcDublican Chaff AU state delegations at the Republican Re-publican national committee meeting meet-ing voted en bloc during the balloting ballot-ing for a convention city, except South Carolina. "Tieless Joe" Tolbert of Ninety Six, S. C, most colorful figure at the meeting, voted for Chicago while his daughter, Julia Tolbert, a national na-tional committeewoman, cast her ballot for Philadelphia. Joe Pew, Pennsylvania's oil magnate mag-nate G. O. P. boss, was boasting about the advantages' the Republican Republi-can convention will bring to Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. "We'd a thousand times rather play host to the Republicans than the Democrats," he said. "Republican convention delegates are better heeled on the whole than the Democrats Demo-crats and spend three times as much money. Democratic delegates are usually poor boys who have to watch their pocketbooks." Justice Stone Walks. Supreme Court Justice Harlan F. Stone is determined to get his walkout walk-out every day. At a reception in a downtown hotel, a friend questioned ques-tioned him about this. "Yes," said Stone, "I'm going to get my exercise today by walking home from this party." The friend expressed surprise, in view of the distance and the slippery slip-pery condition of the streets. "But you see," replied the justice, "in my job, I have to sit a good deal, and I need to walk for variety." vari-ety." Freddy Hale. Congressman Brewster, who will be elected to the senate almost by default, will inherit the shoes of the famous Sen. "Freddy" Hale of Maine. Freddy is never heard around the senate, and rarely seen. Yet his departure from the senate-be senate-be plans to retire this year will make history. It will end the longest senatorial reign of one family in the annals of congress. Hale's father and grandfather grand-father also wee senators; their careers ca-reers dating back 72 years. |