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...Franklin Roosevelt's new Federal Security Administrator, Paul Vories McNutt, was confirmed in office last week by the Senate. He promptly proceeded to evacuate the Public Health Service (one of his charges) from its handsome three-story stone home on Constitution Avenue. "Finest campaign headquarters in America," cracked an observer, and at White House press conference, reporters asked Franklin Roosevelt sly questions about his appointee's chances for the 1940 nomination. This irritated the President, who lectured his hearers about reading political implications into the appointment. But he, too, was sly. He explained that Indiana's McNutt...
...What to do about Indiana's white-headed Paul McNutt, first and boldest Democratic candidate for Franklin Roosevelt's job (TIME, July 10), was a question which Mr. Roosevelt answered last week by inviting Mr. McNutt to become, after resigning as High Commissioner to the Philippines, director of the new, consolidated Federal Security Agency. In that post, at Washington. Candidate McNutt could be kept under surveillance and control, throttled if necessary. Or he could be built up as heir-apparent if that seemed more desirable. Able, ambitious executive that he is, he could be counted on in either...
Another man who will be no great help to McNutt is Indiana's senior Senator, Frederick Van Nuys. When the New Deal called for a purge last year, McNutt & Co. tried to read Senator Van Nuys out of their party. When they found Mr. Van Nuys too tenacious, they had to read him back in again, which shamed and embittered Governor Cliff Townsend, who was told off to do both readings...
Assets of Paul McNutt for the Presidency begin with his physical appearance and vigor. He is handsome to a Hollywood degree. Women flock to see him. He has a Texas wife (Kathleen Timolat of San Antonio), as wise as she is charming, and a good-looking, 18-year-old daughter, Louise. He has false teeth but able Dentist B. K. ("Kirk") Westfall of Indianapolis sees to it that they do not impede his public speaking, which is of the best. He can pour it out so dynamically that his eyeballs pop. His radio voice is not pale, even beside Franklin...
...issues as Relief, Money, Neutrality. Above all he has absolute mastery of Indiana through a machine that is as old-fashioned in its efficiency as it is modern in its setup. Indiana has only 14 electoral votes to offer, only 28 delegates in the National Democratic Convention. But Paul McNutt can count on delivering these white chips with greater certainty than even Cordell Hull can be sure of Tennessee or Jack Garner of Texas. At this stage of the 1940 game, no other candidate except Roosevelt has even one white chip...