Evening star., 1932-12-16
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
RY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

/ feated a Republican incumbent for the
job. Miss O'Loughlin was driving
through her district one day in Octo-
ber when over the radio in her car she
heard 1t stated that the day after elec-
tion Gov Harry Woodring would an
nounce his marriage to her. As she
herself was broadcaSting in the next
town, she lost no time in denying the
romantic impeachment. The low
down was that Klan enemies of the
Democratic Governor thought they
could smear him by spreading news of
his engagement to Catholic.
Capitol Hill lobbies buzz insistently
with the yarn that Jim" Wadsworth
recently elected Representative from
upstate New York, is definitely out
for the Republican minority leadership
of the next House, in succession to
Representative Bert" Smell Of New
York. Mr.. Wadsworth has been in
Washington since Congress rerconvened
and is said to have put In some licks
for his reputed ambition by hobnob-
bing with Republicans-the handful
of them--who will be colleagues in the
Seventy-third Congress. Those who are
peddling the story say the former Sen
ator. who fell afoul the woman drys
when he aspired to reelection in 1926,
would look upon the House minority
leadership as the first step in his cam
paign to capture the G. o. P. presi-
mans have word for it-"zukunftsmu-
six" music for the future.
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Though her name Is almost more
commonly mentioned for Roosevelt
cabinet honors than any other, few
people know that Frances Perkins, New
York State industrial commissioner. is
Lucy Stoner. She is married, but
doesn't use her husbands name, which
is Paul Wilson Mr. Wilson was one of
the late Mayor John Purroy Mitchel's
secretaries in New York City. Fearing
that her own political activities might
prove embarrassing to her husband in
his official capacity-so a friend mar
Whether it would be Mrs. Secretary
Wilson" or Miss Secretary Perkins" In
case OF a cabinet appointment, nobody
seems to know
Speaker Garner himself is authority
for evidence that, now and then at
least, Mrs. Garner is the boss Quoth
the wife Of the Vice President elect:
Jack, I've been seeing a good deal in
the papers about the courage, political
and otherwise. that you're supposed to
have. If there's any truth in that,
you'll go down to the dentists today
and have those two teeth pulled" The
Speaker demUrred: .Ettie, you know
there's still some good left In those
teeth. Let's wait awhile" Mrs. Gar
ner retorted: We'll, you may have
plenty OF political courage, but your
reserve of the physical variety seems to
be low." Jack argued that pulling the
teeth might make him sick, and he
couldn't afford to be laid up Just now
That's all right" replied his wife.
but you'll certainly be laid up if you
don't have 'em pulled The Speaker
saw the dentist, and he's now minus a
pair of molars.
During the late campaign in Wis
consin Senator Gerald P. Nye, Repub-
lican Progressive, of North Dakota. Of
fered to come into the Badger State
and help out the La Follettes in their
desperate effort to keep Wisconsin
safe for Progressivism. Young Bob"
wrote his senatorial colleague that
things were going SO nicely that per-
haps it would be just as well if Nye-
who wasn't out for Roosevelt-stayed
at home. That was o. K with the
North Dakotan, but when Senator La
Toilette a little later volunteered to go
up and do some speaking for Nye, the
latter sent word that everything looked
so good in North Dakota that on the
whole 1t might be better If Bob"
concentrated his energies on Wisconsin.
(Copyrisht, 1932.)