Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-11-11
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC VILLI4N VILE.

at the Biltmore Hotel in New York
around midnight Tuesday Gov Roose-
welt publicly proclaimed his gratitude
and devotion to Col Howe. He bracket
ed HOWe'S name with that of Jim Far
ley. When +. D. R moves into the
White House Howe will be his Walter
NeWtonL Larry RiCheyTed JOslln all
rolled into one. ana then some. Ever
since the President-elect was a voting
member of the New York Assembly 25
years ago Howe has been his guide.
philosopher and friend. 1t is said TO
have been the colonel who first plant
ed the presidential bee in the RoOse-
Welt bonnet. He was at the Governors
right hand throughout Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Navy Gays. between 1918 and
1921. Howe has helped rule New York
State at ALBANY. During the late presi-
dental campaign he vas virtually ST.
preme at national headquarters in Man
haitian. The colonel will be indisputably
the man behind the Roosevelt throne at
Washington. Shrewdness is his middle
name. The President elect trusts his
judgment 100 per cent
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Nothing but his own refusal to take
1t Will prevent Charles Nicholson from
getting about anything he wants from
the incoming powers that be If he
is offered the biggest and best there is.
it'll only be a case of just deserts As
director of Democratic publicity since
1929 no man has approached the cul-
tured time Washington correspond
ent of the New York World in the
gentle art Of making the United States
unsafe for the Republican party Once
upon time Nicholson was assailed for
"Smearing" President Hoover. As a
matter OF fact. his strategy consistently
was to refrain from personalities and
confine the Democratic attack to shafts
at the administrators public policies
II the country finally landSlided into
cyClonic resentment of Hoover and all
his works. the history of the late I'M
pleasantnesS will give Charley Michel
sons relentless campaign of education
main credit for the result. His friends
insist that office has no charm for him
He wants to write a book, fish, hunt
play chess and shoot golf. AS even
place in the cabinet wouldn't allow him
to do that to his hearts content. the
chances are that F.. D. r. would tempt
him in vain.
Calvin Coolidge installed a synthetic
purposes. He'll bert Hoover turned the
east yard Of the Executive Mansion into
a medicine ball court. The dope is
that Franklin D. Roosevelt purposes
constructing an outdoor swimming pool
in the grounds, so that he can con-
tinue his favorite form of sport.
Revived reports that the President
ole vic mo
ton recall that Gov. Roosevelt toured
the Old World after leaving college,
and spent the better part of several
years in Great Britain and on the
continent. He speaks French and Ger
man pretty f1uently. During the World
War he crossed the ocean to inspect
our naval establishment over there"
Early in his governorship of New York
State Mr. Roosevelt went to France to
see his mother, who was then quite i'll.
Next to Herbert Hoover it's said that
no man ever entered the presidency
with so extensive a flrst-hand foreign
background as F. D. r. possesses.
Col Edwin A. Halsey, secretary of
the Democratic minority in the Senate,
is slated to succeed another Ed-Col.
Edwin P. Thayer-as secretary Of the
Senate. Thayer is Hoosier and
protege of Jim Watson. so they'll desert
the longtime scene of their activities
arm in arm. Halsey Virginian. began
his senatorial" career as a page In
1897, when he was appointed by his
uncle, the late Senator John w. Daniel
of the Old Dominion. Since 1928 the
colonel has been secretary and treas
urer of the Democratic Senatorial CAM
paign Committee, which in three Sue
cessive campaigns has caused the
donkey's strength in the Upper House
to wax bigger and bigger. This years
bag of an even dozeF>new Senate seats
caps the climax. +
copyright. 1922