The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-29
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
BY DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT 5. ALLEN

DAhA W A~sAAA0ON dIAu
ROBERT S. ALLEN.
WTASHINGTON. Oct. estate
, w Department historians. now
preparing 10 publish the diplomatic
documents of the Harding Adminis-
tration, recently came across a note
sent TO Cuba by the then Secretary
Of State, Charles Evans Hughes.
1t advised Cuba. in no uncertain
terms, that the best remedy fer its
] bullying sugar crop was TO pillow I'D
a considerable portion of the sugar
/ cane fields. The note was rather
emphatic advice for a Secretary Of
State to be sending, even to a coun-
try where the United States enjoved
special Platt amendment privileges.
Therefore, State Department Of
f1cials hesltated about publishing it.
Mr.. Hughes, they said among them
selves, now occupies the exalted DO
sltion OF Chief Justice Of the SUI
preme Court. 1t might be embar-
RAISING to have his note made pub
lie.
Word of this hesitation reached
Charley Nicholson, aStute strategist
of the Democratic National COM
mittee.
What" said Nicholson. "A Re
publican advised a foreign Country
to pillow up its sugar crop?
That is going to be our answer
/ ~ DAyNs,I,1Teav, AF
There is no doubt about whether
that note is going to be published
even if I have to take it up with
the President"
TOHN ROOSEVELT, Harvard
y sophomore, is adopting his IA
theirs device of press conferences
to straighten out his publicity diff
culties.
John got a couple of raw deals"
from the Boston newspapers re-
Gently. l. The Boston Herald re-
ported enormously that he had
turned down a bid to the Hasty
Pudding Club. 2. The morning
after his automobile accident in
East Boston the Boston American
called him up at a. m. to ask him
how he was sleeping.
! So lanky John called a conference
of the Harvard correspondents of the
Boston papers for p. m, Oct. IT.
at his DunSter House room. OF
the six correspondents in Cam
bridge, three appeared at the con-
ference-American Herald Traveller
and Post. The others-Globe, Adj
vertiser-Record and Transcript
forgot" or didn't care"
No refreshments were served at
the conference, and John was the
only Roosevelt present. He opened
with a remark about "all the pa
pers here" being "anti-father," and
asked the boys to be good fellows
and go easy on him in the future.
NOVEMBER 3, the day Father
IN Coughlin goes back on the air,
is the next important political date
as far as Washington is concerned.
The politicoS from both parties
will have their ears almost glued TO
the microphone to hear whether the
radio priest is going to be pro or
anti-New Deal.
Present indications are that he
has come back on the Roosevelt
bandWagon. Joe Kennedy, former
head of the Securities-EXchange
Commission, is credited with doing
the converting when he took Cough
! lin to Hyde Park last summer.
During that conference, Coughlin
complained about Roosevelt'S failure
to bring about drastic currency in
flation, but otherwise was friendly.
Whatever he says, Coughlin is
going to tell it to a lot more people
this winter. He has increased his
radio network to include stations in
Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Denver
and San Francisco. Before, he only
went as far west as the Mississippi
river.
This new network is going to cost
the Detroit priest a total of 100000,
HULL vi ~ DClI45 opCAAU AOA tNAC-
phone transmission to radio sta
lions, rather than time on the air
itself. To help meet the increased
cost, Coughlin is cutting, his time
from one hour to 45 minutes, elm
mating the music.
II
TRIENDS of Gen. Hugh Johnson
l. say that White House Secretary
Louis Howe agrees with him that
the President should house-clean
the official family. 1t seems that
Louis knew Johnson was writing the
magazine article in which he be-
labored certain New Deal policies.
Senator George Norris, who
has continued working in Wash
ington since the adjournment Of
Congress, has now departed for Ne
braska. He expects to return early
in December.
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