| Show f NEWS BEHIND BEH I IND N D THE NEWS NEWS Written n for The Telegram By Ray Tucker er W WASHINGTON M Mayor a y o 0 r Fiorello Florello Fio Flo- rello LaGuardia shows shows' his usual adroitness in calling queer signals signa for his liberal 1940 line But insiders understand that the tip tipon tipon tipon on how to handle his temperamental temperamental temperamental tempera tempera- mental gang of mavericks originated originated originated within the White House The mayor originally intended to stage a dress rehearsal of the progressive plungers at Washington Washing Washing- ton But he soon discovered that the most sensational shots shots- George Norris the La Hiram Johnson Johnson could could not or would not attend S So he dropped the rally round the flag idea pronto end ond nd is huddling with them quietly and individually individually-at at his home city hall hail and Washington Its It's smart strategy because the silent and secret method keeps private privat feuds within the family Their personal brawls and jealousies jealousies jeal jeal- wont won't hit the headlines It also elso permits President Roosevelt to preserve his amateur standing as a Democrat He might have lost it had his left foot friends sounded off at the capital The audacious New York podesta podesta podesta po- po desta has not advanced his own political fortunes by his recent between the lines behavior It is the heartbreak of his friends within the new deal who privately dub him F. F D. D Rs R.'s legitimate heir The little flower appears to be bea bea a a. man without a vase to hold him up to the people people and and with 1940 just around the corner He alienated the G. G O. O Ps P.'s inner group roup of advises advisers by refusing to support Tom Torn Dewey in the New York governorship contest But Buthe Buthe Buthe he didn't plump sufficiently strong for the victorious Herbert Lehman to ho heigh-ho Jim Farley Without the backing of the mayors mayor's American Labor party Mr Lehman might have lost lost lost-it it c cast t more than votes votes but but you cant can't convince Jim that LaGuar LaGuardia La La- Guar Guardia ia possesses that much pulling power How the Maje will attain his his- only ambition now senate a seat seat puzzles puzzles his well wishers But Mr LaGuardia doesn't seem to be worried over his personal predicament He never does That's why even hard-boiled hard subway subway subway sub sub- way straphangers rate him a statesman instead of just another another another an an- other politician Herr Hitler's negotiation of unpublicized unpublicized unpublicized un- un publicized loans to two Caribbean nations San nations San Domingo and Haiti h has has stirred a secret sensation at atthe atthe atthe the capital Under a sort of gentleman's gentleman's gen gen- tieman's agreement the nations I lingering on Uncle Sams Sam's doorstep are arc not supposed to stain their fingers fingers or or their policies with policies with foreign coin especially a dictators dictators dic die The loans are not dangerously large large to San Domingo and to the Haitian lic lie On the due date nazi bill collectors collectors collectors col col- col- col lectors wont won't dun our southern neighbors from the swabbed and shiny decks of battleships as the kaiser threatened to do to Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela Vene Vene- zuela forcing another Roosevelt to give Admiral Dewey orders to sail But the discovery of this sort of pocket-money pocket penetration I 0 sharpens F. F D. D Rs R.'s revealed re resentment resentment resentment re- re toward the man with the Charlie Chaplin mustache Its It's one of the two or three things a friendly nation shouldn't do to the power which authored the Monroe doctrine Homer Cummings quit for the good and sufficient re reason on that he needs the money contrary to published published published pub pub- reports that he with the president in recent weeks over the latter's political purge The A. A G. G sided with Jim Farley in instead instead instead in- in stead of F D. D R. R in that dingdong dingdong dingdong ding- ding dong battle especially in Connecticut cut but he kept his head He re retires retires retires re- re tires to private law because its it's time to recoup Though not the greatest law of officer officer of- of fleer in American history Mr Cummings is an extremely able attorney he can make real jack at the bar His appointment as Tom Walsh's successor warmed his vanity vein of course he could never be elected to office in his home state of Connecticut but he hc accepted the post at great financial sacrifice His personal establishment here m must st have cost him at east cast a year whereas he receives only annually as a cabinet member And you cant can't eat or drink prestige forever Bob Jackson Jackson Jackson-an an able citizen and not nearly so as asBorne some Borne people think think can can have the job if he wants it He probably will step up from the solicitor generalship unless F. F D. D R. R who likes him tremendously has other plans for the Ja Jamestown lawyer Copyright 1938 for The Telegram |
