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...broad bosom of the Pacific Ocean enfolded Franklin Roosevelt last weekend. To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna, albacore, and the wild wahoo. His secretaries put away a sheaf of delivered speeches. His fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered...
Neither Mr. Tydings nor any other Senator was specifically listed. From the League's Executive Vice President Eli Oliver, however, correspondents dragged enough to indicate that such friendly gentlemen as New York's Wagner will rate A, California's McAdoo with the Bs (although Franklin Roosevelt last week graded him A), George of Georgia and Clark of Missouri in the outer...
...Colorado and Nevada are Senate primary contests in which rebellious Democratic incumbents are being opposed by 100% Rooseveltists (see p. 12). The President will swing through these two States on his way to California, where faithful Senator McAdoo will undoubtedly see him off on a Pacific fishing trip. A plan to combine with fishing a goodwill visit to the west coast of South America was not, last week, finally worked out. C. To the White House Franklin Roosevelt called his Congressional wheelhorses to ask them whether there was any chance of reviving and ramming through the Reorganization Bill this session...
...Last fortnight California's William Gibbs McAdoo, facing a tough four-corner fight, was able to pull an encouraging "Dear Mac" letter from his pocket...
...record for or against, withheld the sunshine of his Interdepartmental Committee report on international broadcasting. With the most authoritative witness out of the picture, the Celler Bill hearings were postponed indefinitely. A similar end was expected by Senator Dennis Chavez to the hearings on his Chavez-McAdoo Bill, which, like the Celler Bill, would authorize the Government to send anti-Fascist propaganda to South America over its own station...