The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-09-14
POLITICAL REVELATIONS in
AND ABOUT NATIONS CAPITAL
By BYRON PRICE
(Chief of Bureau, The Associated
Press. Washingtonl

FfeSSs WaSnlngLonI
And it all comes under the
head of news:
SILENT PARTNER: To adj
ministration politicians, the most
surprising thing about Vice Presi-
dent Gamers withdrawal from
public view is that he hasn't even
taken the trouble to send out
word what patronage, if any, he
wants.
HUEY: If the grapevine It'd
ings from top-notch democratic
circles can be trusted, that punch
ing administered Senator Long at
a New York club party isn't a
circumstance to what is about to
hit him and his party organiza-
ton in Louisiana from the direc-
ton of Washington.
ANGEL WANTED: One potent
reason republican headquarters in
Washington is so silent, in con-
trast to the loud drum-beatings
of the democrats after their de-
feat in 1923, is that no cash
hacker has appeared with money
bags comparable to those opened
to the democratic resuscitators
! four years ago by John j. Ras-
kob.
NEWEST DEAL: There are
signs that one or two other figures
almost as well known as Prof.
Raymond Moley may go west into
the magazine or some other pri-
vate occupation before the Roose-
welt administration is a year old;
and that doesn't mean Secretary
Woodin, who really is i'll and can
leave or stay as he desires.
The Low-Down'
ACTION: 1t has just been dis
closed that some weeks ago Gen
eral Johnson himself, at hastily
called conference of his assistants
at the NRA, laid down the law in
characteristic cuss-words to one
or two who had been bottling up
news about the public business.
REVOLUTION: In these days
when a senator has to get into a
fist-fight to make page one, who
remembers the time when most of
the thunder in Washington en-
anated from senatorial throats,
whether congress was in session
or not?
COLLISION: One reason the
public works prosperity drive
hasn't been faster in getting
started is that many contractors
are afraid to bid on construction
jobs with the price of materials
jumping under the urge of the
NRA prosperity drive.
SERIOUS: Extract from form
letter sent out by the Tennessee
Valley Authority inquiring about
an applicant for job:
eve are interested in knowing
what evidence he has given of
public spirit and social minded
ness. In what activities has he
engaged which were primarily in
the public interest and not fol
financial and personal profit?
Please be specific"
Educational Note
FAME: The professors in the
bureau of education may be in.
terested to know that when a uni
versity graduate recently applied
for a job as typist in a Washing,
ton newspaper shop. and was asked
to type from dictation an article
about General Johnson and the
NRA, he wrote it General Dob.
son" throughout.
NON-MEMBER: A government
employee (under no code) sends in
a suggested NRA poster for gov,
eminent departments with a motto
touching on a very sore spot in
administration circles: "How we
do our part: Our policy is to dis
miss as many faithful employee:
as possible and cut the salaries Of
all we keep Is per cent"
! BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
Distillers and brewers are con
sidering a new trade coalition. t.
be regulated by whisky and beer
czar. and are reported to have
offered the job to a former sena
tor from the old south. at severa
times his erstwhile Capitol Hill
salary.
BEST SELLER: One Of tn,
most prominent dry leaders, in 1
letter urging that someone write
a book about prohibition, cites
the success of w. J. Bryan's 9Th,
First Battle" which reviewed tn,
1895 campaign, and OF The Los
/ Cause" By jefferson Davis.