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Show ,., Washington, D. C. i M";1IE AKOCSES G.O.P.CIIIEFS I While Wendell Willkie made front j Page news in London favoring the lend-lease armament bill, a group of potent midwestern Republican leaders met to discuss what to do -about him. That most of the G.O.P chiefs ar hot under the collar because their erstwhile standard-bearer is behind the Roosevelt measure is putting it mildly. They are so sore they could bite nails. He put the Republican party on the spot on this highly, charged issue the last thing the boys wanted to happen. THE NEW BRAIN TRUSTER Tom Corcoran is famous for many tilings, one of them being his lack of punctuality. Always rushed with innumerable jobs, he got hours behind be-hind with his engagements, and his favorite time for catching up with correspondence was Sunday afternoon and night. Corcoran's first-born daughter arrived ar-rived several days after the doctors had predicted, and the dynamic braintruster took the delay very hard. But not his beauteous wife, Peggy. She was calm and certain everything every-thing would be all right. Afterwards After-wards a friend asked her why she had been so confident. "Oh," smiled Peggy, "who ever heard of a Corcoran being on time for an appointment?" LORD HALIFAX POSES From the point of view of the press, Lord Halifax has got off to a good start. J After his talk with Hull, Halifax in- vited the press into the diplomatic reception room, where with his one good arm (his left hand is missing) ;-he ;-he lit a cigarette and answered ques- i tions with a deep voice and a wan ' smile. ' Oddity at this conference was the presence of the German newsman, L Kurt Sell, correspondent for the official of-ficial Nazi news agency, D.N.B. Sell K busily took notes while Halifax was c saying, "When the history of this Ii war comes to be written, it will say b that Hitler lost the war in June of c 1940." j t PERKINS VS. EVANS i Agriculture department liberals, t led by Milo Perkins, aggressive chief of the surplus marketing administra- tion, have been gunning for Evans' scalp ever since the European war , shut off cotton and wheat export markets, .thus aggravating the eco- , nomic plight of small farmers who j make their entire livelihood from these crops. Perkins wants to meet the loss of foreign markets by less emphasis on "cash income" the . guide-rule of big, commercial farmers and greater emphasis on the food stamp plan for disposal of surpluses at home. His group contends that small growers should be made more self-sustaining self-sustaining by less crop control, and by more diversified farming for domestic do-mestic consumption. Evans looks coldly upon any departure de-parture from the "cash income" principle as rank 'heresy, and views the food stamp program as a deterrent de-terrent on farm prices, rather than a benefit to needy in the cities and a way to dispose of surpluses on the farm. That Perkins' program . stands high in the favor of Wickard was shown when the latter publicly advocated ad-vocated the .policy, as soon as he was sure he would remain as secretary sec-retary of agriculture. - NEW AAA WAR The Agricultural Adjustment administration, ad-ministration, has long rocked by backstage rowing. This year's is the fourth since the AAA was created in 19AAAdministrator Rudolph M. Ev-ans Ev-ans plus certain aides have been accused of being in opposition to Secretary Claude Wickard's announced an-nounced policy of creasing federa aid to small, under-privileged farm higher commodity prices was Ugh vtt benefit payments-a system u edTw mortgages for the lit-tie lit-tie fellow. a tVl- ex BeforiEV:rPeTnrrtAirboss, plosive George Peek. s Da. Wh arrowed w Wallace; and V18i who rowed Howard R. louey . was shUted to ate predecessor who was s the bAuawere liquidated" foUow-Shifter foUow-Shifter Soy rows over this same issue. t MERRY-GO-ROUND Among me habiUments - "er faTunof evening clothes, ington was a suit oi mse -What use will y0",., a riend anCy, d"Oh ""repli'c-d Garner, "we asked. Oh, rep funerals still have weddings &eTe-" , Times Madison. Wis . The Capital Tmes. te pr0. official daily of th a stauncb gressive party, an js supporter o Senate ;he ,end. blasting hS Pos lease bill- |
