Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swifter than Pele in reacting to Roosevelt charm was ex-Socialist Upton Sinclair, now Democratic nominee for Governor of California. On the night before a visit to Hyde Park Mr. Sinclair, by his own ad- mission, was nervous and slept badly. At 5 o'clock the next afternoon he entered the President's study at Hyde Park for an hour's conference. It was two hours before he emerged. He stripped off his coat, sat down with newshawks and began to burble: "I had the most interesting two hours' talk I ever had in my life...
...From Hyde Park the Californian went to Manhattan, met Postmaster General Farley who said "Call me Jim," went on to Washington, saw Relief Administrator Hopkins, Secretaries Morgenthau and Ickes, Chairman Jesse Jones of RFC, Chairman John H. Fahey of the Home Loan Bank Board, Governor William Irving Myers of the Farm Credit Administration. Still enthusiastic, Mr. Sinclair declared: "I won't quote anybody as approving my campaign but I will say that . . . not one official expressed the opinion that my plan [End Poverty In California] was not practical. ... I am going back to assure the people of California that...
...Less effusive was another Californian who followed Mr. Sinclair as a visitor to Hyde Park. Senator William G. McAdoo returned from Europe by no means pleased at Sinclair's nomination over his own candidate, George Creel. "Personally I like Mr. Sinclair very much," he admitted noncommittally. Then he entered the Roosevelt study. Later the President told newshawks that "very little, if any," politics had been discussed...
...nervous was His Majesty's Government about Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley's mass meeting in Hyde Park last week that it assigned 7,000 London police to chaperone it. When tall, aristocratic Sir Oswald uprose to speak, he was surrounded by five concentric rings...
Recently at Hyde Park, President Roosevelt was understood to have instructed Disarmament Ambassador Norman H. Davis to keep up his fight in London for the retention of the present naval ratio...