The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16

HIS SuCCCSSOI WILL UG 1OCuS1 kAQS ministrator Harry Hopkins, whose most likely successor in turn will be his deputy administrator, Au- brey Williams, the hardest work ing executive in Washington. Wil- Hams also runs the National Youth Administration and is assisting in the formulation of the national defense program.
 Roper is undecided about what he will do when he steps out. He will be within 8 few months of II years of age. He has had sev- eral business offers, but may re- sume the practice of law.
 Exit Farley
 NEXT RESIGNATION will be that of Postmaster General Jim Farley, but limited only to his Cabinet job. Jim will not give up his positions as Democratic Na- tional chairman and New York state chairman.
 Jim is reIinquishing his port
 folio for two reasons = to re-
 coup his personal fortune and
 to push his presidential cam-
 paign.
 He was all set to quit in Sep tember, 1887, to become head of the Pierce Arrow automobile com- pany, but a refinancing deal, upon which the job depended, fell through as a result of the stock market slump. Magazine rights to his autobiography, Behind the Ballots" netted Jim $75, 1000, en- abling him to pay off debts ac- cumulated as a Cabinet member, but left unsolved the problem of providing a competence for his family.
 Jim is considering offers from
 four firms, one being the Willys-
 Overland Motor company. He
 will make q choice in the next
 two months, in order to resign
 by March l. This early date
 would allow him greater free-
 dom to push his presidential
 drive.
 Jim feels that as a member of the Cabinet he does not have the liberty of action he would in pri- vate life. Also, the probable pres- ence around the Cabinet table of Hopkins and Solicitor General Bob Jackson, Cummings most likely successor, does not set well with Jim. He is on friendly personal terms with the two New Deal mili- tants, but all three know that they are on different sides of the political fence.
 HuH-Farley Ticket
 There has been no rift between Farley and the President, but Jim is now definitely on his own. He is out for place on the 1940 ticket; he will make 8 big noise for the No. l spot but will be satisfied with No. 2.
 What he secretly envisions is . Hull-Farley ticket.
 Completely on his own, and with the Democratic organization in his very efficient hands, Jim believes he would be in a strong position to put over such a slate. He is confident he already has sewed up New England, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon and the Pendergast portion of the Missouri delegates.
 The Kansas City boss has as- sured Jim that the delegates he controls will be for Farley - and not Senator Bennett Clark, an- other burning yearner for the 1940 lightning.
 Capital Chaff
 State Department officials were considering the possibility of sending William E. Dodd, exam bassador to Germany, as new am- bassador to Moscow, until he was arrested for hit-and-run driving. They thought the appointment would be a beautiful rebuff to Hitler, whom Dodd hates .. Although a lot of people had a hand in the more conciliatory pol- icy of the Manufacturers Associa- tion toward the New Deal, one who played the greatest hand was Prentiss Coonley, business ambas- sador to the Roosevelt adminitsra- tion Here is what Coro- dell Hull thinks of labor unions: When the Pan-American Govern ing Board voted on a proposal ito consider discussion of a Pan- American Labor office at Lima. similar to the one in Geneva, Hull voted No. The vote was merely on whether to discuss it, not on whether to establish it.
 Senator's Daughter
 When Senator "Puddler Jim" Davis of Pennsylvania landed in New York, after 8 brief trip to DIFF THE RECORD