The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-13

NOTE-Some days later, Rex Tugwell, an original Brain Trus- ter and one of Roosevelt's clos est advisers in the New Deal, be- ing entertained at another gath ering. was asked:
 "Wero you at the Jefferson
 "Yes," replied Rex bIushing, ''but for Gods sake don't ask me about it."
 '.MUsT' LEGISLATION
 Jim Byrnes, White House liaison man in the senate, is passing out the word privately that only three bills now remain on the presidents legislative must" calendar for this session.
 The measures are-tax, tariff, and stock exchange control.
 Unless the president is pre- vailed upon, to make additions, the rest of the pending social and reform bills are doomed to the dump heap.
 The list which faces scrap ping is imposing. On it are: the Wagner labor bill, the Tugwell- Copeland pure food and drug bill, the Wagner unemployment insurance bill, the Mcleod closed bank payoff bill, the cornmuni- cations commission measure, and the Connery 30-hour bill.
 The one measure in the group with a good chance of a reprieve IS the unemployment insurance proposal. The president has publicly endorsed it, and if the three must" bills are disposed of early enough 1t is not im- probable that the Wagner pro- Ject will be allowed to come up.
 The aim of the administration Is to wind up congress by May l5. June Is a better guess. But the drive Is for the 18th, with the idea that the gavels can be dropped by the 1st.
 STILL YOUNG
 Consider the naivete of Mrs Franklin Dclano Roosevelt on the matter of fame:
 Entertaining a group of ladies at tea in the White House, she was telling about the last party she gave for grandchildren Sis- tie and Buzzie (beg pardon, they're Anna Eleanor and Cur tis. Jr, these days.) Remarked the First Lady:
 "It was too bad, but the party dragged just little tOw- ard the end, because we had to delay serving the ice cream and cake.
 "You see, Franklin" she hesitated, interjecting an expIa- nation: "-he's my husband-", then cOntirAlcd: "-FrankIin wanted us to wait till he could get here and sec them go in.
 And he was held up at the Officc."
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Arizona's fluffy-haired Con- gresswoman Isabella Greenway may be a school girl friend of Mrs Roosevelt, but 1t is not keep- ing her from working hand -in- glove with the administration s bitterest foes. Mrs Greenways s latest is to join in the. Wall street drive to mutilate the Securities act Pugnacious Senator Bone of Washington comes by his fighting qualities naturally ". :. He has ancestors who fought in every American war, beginning with the Revolution. .. (. North Caroltna's boom- ing Senator Bob Reynolds is showing his colleagues some new tricks in the art of glad hand ing Bob greets constituents, newspapermen, all callers as Colonel or Cousin" .. Kingfish Huey Long recently gave the senate a new slant on higher education in Louisiana. Said Huey: We graduate Phi Beta Kappas from the Univer- sity of Louisiana who would be glad to get jobs as dishwash- CTS" .. Huey also has a new name for newspaper headlines. He calls them "boxcar letters" !. Pickings were slim at the recent democratic dinner to raise funds to pay off the ,$14,O00 mortgage held by Barney Baruch on tho Jefferson Club lodge on Chesapeake bay Of the 250 guests present only 12 came through with checks. the highest for $500 General Hugh Johnson is priming his verbal batteries for an early fusillade against the Federal Trade Com mission .. It's recent report, pouring hot coals on his head for allowing monopolistic trade prac- tices in the steel code. aroused his ire to fighting pitch.
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