The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-13

which he knew about, he fought. But he had not picked the prop ,er subordinates. In this respect the revelations of the past week were devastating.
 As a. snowman the general is unequalled, b,t 'te cannot swal- low his own medicine. After ad- vertising a field day for critics he singled out the most effective of them, the titan haired wife of Governor Clifford Pinchot, and gave her terrific tongue-lash- ing.
 words, the general "cant take it.'' His microscope was none too kind to the Godfather of the Blue Eagle.
 NO GENERALS
 Clarence Darrow, appointed chairman of the national recov- cry review board to save the small businessman from the talons of the Blue Eagle, be- gan his work with a vengeance. His first act was row with Nef1eFdl JOnIlSOU.
 "What's tho idea of saying I'm under the MIRA when I'm not?" the crusty old champion of the underdOg demanded
 "WelI, we'll put you under," rctOrtcd the general.
 "You'll not," said Darrow. and demanded that they go to the White House to get the matter settled.
 eve never served under general fin my life," DarrOw told Roosevelt, "and I'm not going to begin at this age."
 Darrow won the argument. The president ruled that he act independently of Johnson in hearing the complaints of 2,00O to 5000 small business men who claim they are being ruined by monopolies under the MIRA. IRISH REPUBLIC
 William W. Mcdowell, new American minister to the Irish Free State, knows only one man in Ireland. He is Ramon de Valera.
 They met when de Valera was touring the U. $. A. for recog- milton of the Irish republica and passed through Butte, Montana, where Mcdowell was lieutenant governor and speaker of the state legislature. After de Valera addressed this assemblage, Me- Dowell offered a resolution call ing upon the United States to recognize the Irish republic.
 The Irish republic was later recognized, but in manner not particularly gratifying to the state department.
 The republic is a sort ponit with the British government. It reluctantly accepted the Irish Free State, but balks at an Irish republic at its door.
 Perhaps not knowing this, COrdell Hull stopped briefly in Ireland en route to the late lamcnted London conference. He was visited by the lord mayor of CObh. Irish blarney was at it's best. TOasts flower. Mir Hull was flattcred. For once his cautious ness deserted him. He responded to the lord mayor by offering q toast to "President de Valera and the Irish republic."
 London papers headlined up the error. Shamefaced, MT Hull hastened to correct it.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 If Sam Insull had been smart he could have moved across the borders of Greece to Albania and never been extradited. To head this off, the state depart ment has been rushing ratifica- tion of an extradition treaty with Albania. But it's terms are not retroactive and if Insull had got to Albania first, he never could have been busted. Baron von Redlich, honorary representative of the tiny Prin- cipality of Monaco. is chairman of the Foreign association / of Kentucky Colonels. Next to Secretary Ickes, the highest paid man in the interior depart ment until recently, was Nanny Straus in charge of press rela- tions for public works. An ex- reporter on the Chicago Herald Examiner, he now gets $S.000 without a cut. Recently, however, Nathan Margold, solic- itor of the interior department, jumped ahead fo him. Margold is not a lawyer of note for nOught. Drawing only $S,- 900 minus 154o cut-or $6,S00 he got himself appointed to the petroleum administrative board. There he gets $9,000 and no cut. Sec Hull has fresh ened< up the sombre surround ings of the state department. Five magnificent ferns have been sent him from the de- partment of agriculture for his own office. Perhaps with pointed subtlety, the waiting room for foreign diplomats was decorated with rubber plants.
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