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Distracting though it might be, Economy was only a froth on the turbulent riptide of Congressional feeling about the President's Court Plan. Son-Secretary James Roosevelt, who sped South last week to join his father at Fort Worth, and Postmaster General Farley, who boarded the Presidential special at Indianapolis, reportedly were both dispatched by Senate leaders to tell the President that his Plan seemed headed for defeat, to beg him to accept a compromise. Polls continued to show the Senate so evenly split that forecasters were suggesting that Vice President Garner might have to break...
Blunt even for him was Postmaster General Farley's statement of the case: "Why compromise? The Democratic Senators were elected on the basis of supporting the President's program. It's up to them to back...
...Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round, the lively syndicated column of Washington tips and chitchat produced by Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen, there appeared one day last week the following item: ''Mrs. Farley, who is always complaining that Jim would rather make speeches than make enough money to buy her a car, grouses privately against the Roosevelts. She thinks the President has not properly recognized her husband's ability...
...which Columnists Pearson & Allen had confirmed at first-hand was that Publisher William Randolph Hearst, having hired the President's son Elliott to run his Southwestern radio stations and the President's son-in-law John Boettiger to run his Seattle Post-Intelligencer, had offered James A. Farley, the President's first lieutenant, $200,000 per year to become general manager of the Hearst-papers...
Ever since the celebrated Farley-Roosevelt airmail cancellation, the Post Office has been as capricious with the airlines as a young girl is with her suitors. This airline application it grants; that one it turns down, often with no satisfactory explanation. One of its key policies has been to frown on any proposed extension of one airline or creation of a new one if it will compete with an established service (TIME, March 22). Since the Post Office controls the air mail subsidy, its word is tantamount to law and many a proposed extension has failed to materialize. Denver...