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Show federal Patronage Used As Scourge, Says Downey ocrat "repeatedly and cheaply abused me" in his editorial columns. WASHINGTON, Jan, 15 UFt Senator Downey, D, Cal.) accused ac-cused President Roosevelt today of using federal patronage to "discipline and chasten" him for defeating William Cibba McAdoo for th Democratic senatorial nomination in 1938 and for refusing refus-ing to "rubber stamp" new deal legislation. He made the accusation during hearings before a senate finance subcommittee on the president's nomination of Paul R. Leake to be custom collector at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Downey told th committee that m selecting Leak th president "picked almost the - only man among California's ,000,000 people peo-ple I would say was personally obnoxious ob-noxious to me." Downey said that Leake, as publisher pub-lisher of theWlandJCaL;DetT |