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The Washington times., 1938-06-22
REAL "WHITE ELEPHANT"

Barnum bought a white elephant
in Siam that cost him $200, 900 by
the time 1t arrived in this country.
The Washington times., 1938-06-22

The allotment included loans
totaling $9,O21 900, and grants of
SAL ,632,7l5, the balance of the
funds to be supplied by applicants.
Another group of almost 300
projects with a total value of
around $100,OOO,0O0 will be an.
nounced this afternoon.
The Washington times., 1938-06-22

Az NAIL BUBSCRIPTIQNS PAYARLB
n ADVANCE
The Washington times., 1938-06-22
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1ITTs By NAL FOR VTRGrNTA. MARY.
LAND, WEST VIRGINIA AND
NORTH CAROLINA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-09-24

1903 CONN. AVE. NV.
S-story elev. bldg. cleo. refR, on
house current. Resident MANAGER.
rms. kit. and so
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Elec. refrigeration.
3 rms. kit. bath and porch $50. 90
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l01S n S1REE1

8 rooms. kitchen and bath $b7. 80
rooms, kitchen and ath--$65 90
3 rooms. kitchen and bath $1,000
Electric refrigeration. Res. Mgr.
Elevator. Switchboard.
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13ln ASAAEAn pl ACE

and 3 rooms. kitchen. bath,
large porch, overlooking Rock
Creek Park. Corner apartment,
3 exposures. Refrigeration on
house current. Resident Manager.
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IVZ0 I9tn 81. NV.
Q rooms and bath Ono kitchsn).
2 rooms. kitchen and bath. Flee.
trio refrigeration. Switchboard.
Elevator service. Resident man
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MACoMB GARDENS
NIW BUILDING

r.,r sI H;S. Mt.sftM ;ts, .. NM ar...
ing closet and foyer $50 80
, rooms. dinstts kitchen. bath pnd
Res. AsY.. Mrs. Hertsrt, Em. 66b2.
All Apartments Open for
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THE COWARD

I room. kitchen. bath and foyer,
$35 90 and S37 80
2 rms. kitchen. bath a. foyer. $500
24-hr. switchboard and Elevator
4eryice. Res. Mgr. Mrs. Kimball. Na.
oO70.
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1903 RANDOLPH STREET
z rooms. kttehsn and bath $500
Refriser Hon on house current.
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LA p ST Nv

2l47 o ST. NV,
Elec. refR. Resident manager.
2 rms. kit. and 80
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losetanasd % lgsas Hsss.)
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1907 18th STREET NV.
! room. bath (no kitchen).
1 room. kitchen, bath
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5000 18th ST. NV.
Practically new building. Venetian
blinds, gas refriReration. Resident
manager
. rms. kit. d. q, and bath aB-.BO
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LA RENE
6425 CONN. AVE. NV
Elev. a. switchboard service. Elec.
refg. on house current. Garage.
Laundry facilities. Resident manner.
rms. kit. and bath $40 90
1887 RHODE ISLAND AVE. NV.
Flee. refR. and cleo. on house current
Resident MANAGER. Elevator.
rms. kit. d. .. and bath 80
1726 18th ST. NV.
Eee rsfr. on house current. Resident
Q rms. kit. and bath s4sBo
THE STANTON
12s c ST. NE.
rms, kit. and bath Sb4 an
s22S N. DAKOTA AVE. NV.
Electric Refrigeration.
rms Kit. d. a. and bath $4,000
Sss4 9Th ST. NE.
fNEAR CATHOLIC UNTVERSrrYD
rm.. kit. and bath S2s. 90
LIE BOURGET
AIR CALIFORNIA ST. NV,
Fec. refE; on house current. Es-
Z rms. fi Kit. and Bath sh7,o
3516 w PLACE NV.
Flee refg on house current
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ALTO ToWERS

SZUB Wtboon6tn Ave.
I and ? rooms. kitchen, dining alcove
and bath SAT so and $50 90
Free Refrigeration.
Res, MgY.. Mrs. delmAn, clsvs. $500.
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BLAIR PARK

INES EASteTn Ave.
block OF O.. Ave. at District Line.
2 rooms. kitchen. din. alcove and
Res. Mgr.. Mrs. Blaver. sH. 17i3.
and Epenfn0
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THE GELMok1
1888 3Yd st. NE.
l and 2 rooms, kitchen and bath.
S47.00 to Sb7 80
Chs. Electricity and Refriserat ton
Included in Rent.
Re-. Msr., Mrs. ItSlsr. Dec. $500.
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Q and 3 rooms. kitchen. bath
and porch. Resident manager.
Refs. on house current.
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arr CALIFORNIA st. NV.
Elec. refE. on house current, Ele.
vator. Resident manager.
rms. kit. and bath AT ko
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3l45 MT. PLEASANT STREET
4 rooms kitchen. bath and Porch,
Refrigeration on house current.
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S1oNELnGH COURT

CenA. Ave. and Z ~. NV.
md rooms. kitchen bath and
Elevator. Resident Managsr. Mrs.
Poston. Ma. 1855.
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ApLs. COnt4idInk entrance hall. Nv.
ing room. dining room, kitchen.
pantry. 2 bedrooms and 2 baths.
Electric refrigeration. Res. Mgr.
Elevator. Building desirably 10.
Gated Just OF Mass. Ave.
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SSH GEORGIA AVE.
(eilyer SPRING. MAJ
t00k s xtsss'qR . az pss Hon. s*z''o
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SULGRAyE MANOR

$3.50 CONN. AVE. NV.
Modern elevator BLDG 6ecretsrial
telephone service. Elec. refg on house
current. Resident MANAGER Open
snd lighted until Gao pm
2 rms. kit. d. .. and bath $50. 90
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THE STANTON

6z2S N. DAKOTA AVE. NV.
Electric Refrigeration.
= rms, Kit, d. a. and bath &4e. 90
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5070 THAYER ST. NE.
(R I. AVE. BET. 22nd and 23d)
Elec. refrigeration. Res. Mgr.
3 rms. kit. and bath so
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1901 CALVERT STREET
2 and 4 rooms. kitchen and bath.
All outside. large. spacious rooms:
large porches; shower bath !;
abundance of closet space. G. E.
refrigeration. Res. Mgr.
The Washington times., 1938-06-06


Corcoran, White House darling,
and Chairman of the House
Rules Committee John O'Con-
nor are blood cousins. The
blood relationship is distant
almost as distant as their politi-
cal viewpoints.
SaddeSt sight of the Wash
ington week: The faces Of those
Senators who recorded them
selves in favor of the compro-
mise amendment to restrict use
of PWA funds for power prof.
ects-and then failed to get a
record vote on the similar but
more sweeping Hale amendment.
The boys wanted that second
chance. They planned to rec
ord themselves against the Hale
proposal and thus be on both
sides of the question. But the
Hale amendment was beaten by
g. voice vote.
Honors for the longest face
went to Bulkley of Ohio who is
facing a tough fight for renom-
:nation. The President will
make a speech for Bulkley who
married Roosevelt Kinswoman,
at Marietta, Ohio, July 8.
His colleagues are wondering
how Carter Glass is getting
along with the livestock on his
The Washington times., 1938-06-06
Saves Words
Crvptic Wire Tells OF
Air Crash

Paul Williams Murphy, %, a
member of the staff of the Pan
American Union here, does not be-
lieve in wasting words over a mere
airplane accident.
Murphy and four Mexicans were
reported injured in an airplane
crash near Oaxaca City. Mexico,
Friday. Today his brother, Har-
old Murphy, received a wire from
Mexico to set family fears at rest.
1t merely said:
Safe. Sailing Wednesday,
Paul"
Murphy a member Of a stats,
tical staff of the Pan-American
Union, had been doing promo
tional work in Mexico. His home
is at 428 Crittenden st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-06-06
HOPE OFFERED
OLDER WORKERS

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
hopes the future organization OF
industry will be such that "peo.
pie with experience will be able
to obtain jobs for which they are
fitted"
Writing in the Democratic Di-
gest, in answer to a question
about the growing tendency to dis
charge men over As, she said:
"Oh age pensions will take a
great number of the very much
older people out Of the working
field.
LAS business increases, hope
very much that it will organize
itself so that people with expert
ence will be able to obtain jobs
for which they are fitted. They
will automatically vacate jobs
which require the particular
attributes of youth - greater
speed, greater strength and
greater adaptability
She said she felt that in this
country many had made a great
mistake in the type of installment
buying INDUCED in. She warned
that in any installment purchases
q sufficient down payment should
be made to provide a considerable
equity.
The Washington times., 1938-06-06
RBidS Leaders Pass Must
Bills, Adjourn by Saturday

wants to send to the President for
signature the bill to revise the food
and drug laws as well as the
measure setting up a new system
OF Federal aid for the shipping
industry.
Certain for passage before ad.
journment, it was said, is a reso-
luton to create a committee to
investigate monopoliStic trends in
industry and finance.
A group of Senators was press
ing for final passage Of a bill to
revise the Federal bankruptcy
laws so as to facilitate the reor-
ganization of corporations in dis
tresS, with safeguards for minor
ity stockholders.
Hope was revived that the bill
authorizing the RFC to lend
money to railroads for purchase
Of equipment, where such pur.
chases will put men to work, will
.be passed before adjournment,
The Washington times., 1938-06-06

"They have frowned down
and scorned every overture for
settling their obligations" Lewis
said. "They are incurring the
ill-will of the American people,
who don't like WelsherS. Solemn
promises apparently mean moth
ing to these powers that call
themselves great"
NEW BLAST DUE
Lewis disclosed he would deliver
another speech in the Senate this
week. ripping into the debtor ma.
tions, whose installments are due
June Is, but have given no indica.
tionS they will pay.
Attacking the debtor nations
has been studied program of the
bewiSkered Lewis. During the
session of Congress now drawing
to a close he has offered many
propositions as a basis for settling
the debts, at least in part.
"And 1 am going to continue
to harp on the subject, for we
intend to stand for honor in
international dealings" Lewis
said grimly.
He predicted that resentment
against the failure of the debtors
to keep their obligations would
result in Congress forbidding any
reciprocal trade agreement to be
made with a nation in default
upon its debts to this country.
CITES PROPOSAL
Among the proposals Lewis has
made for reopening the debt ques-
ton were:
/. Authorization for debtor
nations to float bond issues here
in small denominations to raise
funds.
2. ansfer to the United
States by Great Britain of
islands it owns off the American
coast as part payment.
8. Debtor nations to grant
credits to American tourists
travelling within the territory
of the debtors. The tourists
would in turn make cash pay
ments to the American Treas
ury as an offset on the debts.
4. Preferential treatment in
commerce, with the American
beneficiaries paying cash to the
American treasury equal to the
trade advantage received.
The Washington times., 1938-06-06
Rep. Barton Asks
| Z Investigations

! U.NSD Representative Barton
KR) Of New York today intro
duced resolutions to have the
House appoint special committees
TO investigate agriculture, taxa.
ton, unemployment and relief,
reciprocal trade policy, Govern
ment competition with business so
cial security, and the railroad
situation. Under his proposal the
committees would conduct the in
VeStigationS this summer and fall
and report to the next Congress in
January. He said the seven sub
NectS he listed for investigation
constitute "the seven deadly sores
Of current economic life"
The Washington times., 1938-06-06
.D.C.AirpOrt
Fight Is
Delayed

Action on the Camp Springs
airport bill, described as the Presi.
dents dream child" was post
poned today by the House Rules
Committee.
Scheduled for a hearing before
the committee, consideration Of
the legislation was put off until
tomorrow by Representative John
j. O'Connor CD, of New York,
Rules Committee chairman.
MAYS REQUEST
Representative A. j. May CDO,
Of Kentucky, chairman of the
House Military Affairs Committee,
asked for its consideration. At
the mention of the Camp Springs
airport, Representative D. H. NC
Lean (R0, of New Jersey. Rules
Committee member, asked:
rs that bill the dream child?"
Mr.. McLean'S question referred
to President Roosevelt's dream Of
an airplane crash at Washington
Airport. Immediately after having
this dream, the President sum.
moned group of House members
to the White House and asked for
immediate action on a municipal
airport for the District.
FRIDAY LIMIT
Following the meeting Of the
Rules Committee, it was stated
that there "is no hurry" for grant
ing a rule on the airport legisla-
tion, pointing out that no rules
can be acted upon until Friday.
the airport at Camp Spring Is
strong in the House, with Rep
resentative Carl Vinson CD Of
Georgia, chairman of the Naval
Affairs Committee, prepared to
fight the bill.
The Washington times., 1938-06-06
CONTINUED from Page y

Of prosperity was not expected to
meet insurmountahle barriers.
Determined to minimize the pos
sibility of a special session of Con-
;Rress after the November elections,
Administration leaders disclosed
they would insist upon Senate
amendments giving the President
broad power in controlling the
'spend-and-lend program.
These amendments included one
10 permit the Executive to spend
all of the WPA funds before March
d, If conditions require; to spend
&12Sy 900 900 for direct relief or the
dole N event mass starvation
threatens, and to distribute $212.
OOO, 900 to the farm belt in antici
patton Of surplus crops and low
prices In the fall.
- Before the adjournment gongs
king the Democratic leadership
The Washington times., 1938-06-06
Hull Speeds
British Pact
In Trade

U.N.s) While negotiations fol
a reciprocal trade treaty with
Great Britain are being pressed
Secretary Hull is unable to pre-
dict when they may be concluded
This was disclosed today in a
letter, written on May %, from
Hull to Representative Treadway
(RO. Massachusetts, and made
public by the letter.
Hull emphatically denied that
the negotiations are responsible
for conditions in the American
wool industry, and promised tc
safeguard interests of the industry
in any reciprocal trade pact.
mo one can foretell how long
these negotiations will be in
progress" said Hull, adding that
formal notice of an intention to
negotiate a treaty was issued
only four months ago.
with reference to the state
ment that uncertainty concern
ing the pending agreement is
causing decreased production,
reductions in wages and demor-
alization of the market of the
domestic wool-textile industry,
I feel sure that careful study of
the agreements already made
and of the care with which the
negotiations are conducted
should dispel any such appre-
hension," Secretary Hull wrote.
He declared that the industry
Fcan do much to steady the whole
situation by refraining from ere.
Rting exaggerated fears, based
upon conjectures, which are un-
warranted by the facts"
The Washington times., 1938-06-06

impassioned periods of 4 Senate
colleague, bent on earmarking
Federal relief funds, the Hon. j.
Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, the
pink of sartorial perfection as
usual, sauntered slowly to his
seat and drew out a red rubber
nasal spray.
The attention of the galleries
quickly veered from the speaker
as Lewis nestled the spray
against his flowing white
whiSkers and proceeded to
slowly and methodically treat
his nasal passages.
The Washington times., 1938-06-06

Ly n c n burg,
V a., f a r m.
The Virginia
Senator went
home in a
huff, snorting
that Washing
ton was mo
place for a
S a n e man"
and that 81
have m or e
chance of re-
S strai ming a
bull than Of
re S t r aiming
this Senate.
X X \
T1Jri~~ %HA
The Washington times., 1938-06-06
NORTON BALKED
in COMPROMISE
ON " A GE BILL
House Conferees Reject
Yielding to Senate

VI. N. 81 LIldlTIndQ MARY L
Norton Cd, Of New Jersey. o!
the House Conference Committee
has offered to accept the Senate
wage-hours bill as a basis for E
compromise agreement. The pro
posal was seconded by Represent
ative Ramspeck CD of Georgia
but was rejected, temporarily a
least by other members of he
House Conference Committee.
AS the Senate-HouSe conferees
met again to seek a method ot
harmonizing differences of the
two bodies on the far reaching
legislation, another effort to force
acceptance of the Senate bill was
expected.
BILLS WIDE APART
The Senate wage-hours bill
which creates a Federal board and
gives it authority to fix minimum
wages up to 40 cents an hour and
lower hours to 40 week, differs
radically from the House bill. The
House bill itself sets minimum
wages and avoids creation of a
huge Federal Bureau.
Strong advocates of the House
bill were fearful that a majority
of the House conferees would bow
to the Senate's proposal. In this
event, a strong effort will be made
to kill the legislation in the House.
ConfereeS entered their fourth
executive session with hopes of
reporting favorably a compromise
bill by Wednesday.
Senator Thomas CD of Utah,
chairman of the Senate Labor
Committee, still hoped the con-
fereeS will reach agreement on
the legislation Wednesday, or
earlier. Senators Borah (R) of
Idaho and Walsh CD of MaSSa-
chusetts predicted adjournment
will be nearer July l.
NEW PLAN BY THOMAS
A new compromise was placed
before the conferees by Senator
Thomas.
The Thomas compromise would
create an administrative agency,
or an administrator, with discre-
tionary authority to raise pay
levels from the minimum Is cents
an hour, adopted by the conferees,
to 40 cents within three years.
The administrative agency or
administrator would have author
ity to order interstate commerce
industries to pay hour rates within
the Is and 40 cent range, depend
ing on their location, transporta-
ton facilities, prevailing wage
rates, and cost of living.
WARNING BY AFL
The adjournment picture was
further clouded by a warning from
the American Federation of Labor
that it will call upon its friends
in Congress to oppose any wage
hour legislation that carried pro-
visions for differentials or ex-
emptions, below the minimum
wage and hour scale.
William Green, federation preSi-
dent, said there can be no COM
promise" between the Senate bill,
which grants differentials, and the
House bill setting up a rigid wage
and hour law. His statement was
held doubly significant in view
of the House conferees' indorse-
ment of a compromise bill pro-
posed by Walsh and backed by
Borah.
The Washington times., 1938-06-06


vital points where silver Amer
lean eagle grasps in it's talons
the presidential pants. Mrs.
Woodring'S friend was the
Fashion is Spinach" author,
Elizabeth Halves.
With the proud eye of literary
fatherhood, F. D. r. gazes fondly
on the five-volume de luxe set
of his recently published "The
Public Papers and Addresses of
Franklin D. Roosevelt" Re
porters coming in for White
House press conferences noticed
them stacked on his desk or on
a nearby table. And the busy
President finds time to check up
on how much the literary brain
child is bringing back to papa in
the way of royalties.
He has been told that in some
bitter anti-New Deal localities
(around Boston's Beacon Hill,
for example) wealthy customers
have told bookShop owners that
unless the Roosevelt volumes
are taken out of the show win
dow they will boycott the store.
To jester who commented that
F. D. RS volumes weren't set
ting a Gone With the Wind"
sales record, the President
cracked back confidently:
Herbert Hoover'S collected
papers sold 1900. If 1900 peo-
pie bought Hoover's speeches,
I'll sell a million copies of
mine"
Since his arrival in the Cap
itol, French Ambassador Count
Saint Quentin, strictly a not
before-Sundown" drinker, has
been politely startled at the gall
Ions of cocktails consumed in
line of social duty at Washing.
ton parties.
It's the lunch.time and mid
afternoon cocktailing that per-
turbs the Ambassador; those all
too frequent occasions when his
personal inclination to wave a
drink aside is steam.rollered by
a persistent hostess and diplo-
matte etiquette. Count Saint.
Quentin found small comfort in
the farewell obervation Of for
mer counsellor at the embassy,
Jules Henri. Said Henri:
X X
"I have made careful esti'
mates and now that I am re-
turning to France can Solemnly
swear that during my 10 years
in Washington I drank, God
help my digestion, $4,000 cock
tails in line of duty. Not q
single day passed that I didn't
drink five. On days when the
schedule called for an official
luncheon, several teas and a
formal dinner the number
scared to astronomical proper
tions."
The problem of confereees on
the pure food and drug bill is
complicated by their certain
knowledge that the President
is somewhat suspicious of the
purity of their intentions and
will examine their products
with a super-critical eye.
The President is not alone
The fact is, consumers groups
and IA women's organizations
including the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs and the
League of Women Voters will
demand a Presidential vote un
less the conferees knockout the
proposal to permit unlimited
court appeals from the decisions
Of the bills administrator, the
Secretary of Agriculture.
A far from popular anti-New
Deal Southern Congressman
walked through the cloakroom
last week with a slight limp
The Washington times., 1938-06-06
|"STREAMLINED"
PARTY seen BY
OV.LAFOLLETTE
Cites Failure to Solve
J0bIeSS Problem

BOSTON. June 6 GN.S0.-Tht
political party Of tomorrow will b.
streamlined" as opposed to thu
"oxen and covered wagon" which
today represents the Republican
party, in the opinion of Governor
Philip La Toilette of Wisconsin.
Political "big shots" of both par
ties are about to topple from theil
high places, declared the Wiscon
sin governor, in an interview after
meeting with more than 100 politi
cal liberals to discuss formation
of a skeleton organization Of the
National Progressive Association
in Massachusetts,.
IDLENESS UNSOLVED
"If either the Republican
party or the Democratic party
solved the problem of putting
10000, 900 men and women back
to work there would not be a
chance in the world for a third
party" Governor La Toilette
said.
AS an illustration of the method
his party would pursue to make
jobs for the jobleSS, the Wlscon'
sin governor said 3,500,000 could
be put to work undermining the
country's transportation system.
He added that if Congress would
pass an act ordering the railroads
to junk antiquated equipment,
cross off their old debt and give
new capital precedence over the
old securities, the new transpor.
tation system would become the
first line of military national de,
fenSe.
TRAINS "WASTEFUL"
every time you run a train
here in New England you are
wasting money" he said. Every
time you haul a passenger train
you are hauling three times as
much weight as is necessary.
Modern cars and modern equip
ment are only one-third the
weight of the cars and equip
ment now in service"
Governor La Toilette indicated,
but would not predict, that there
would be a National Progressive
party in Massachusetts, at the
next election and that it would
have candidates for State offices
The Washington times., 1938-06-06

get them? Mrs.
Woodring said
she got them
t h r o u g h a
friend, a New
ork fashion
e x p TT a n d
would get a
pair for the
President. The
p r e S i Dental
SuSpenders ar
r iV e d.: r e d
bands over the
S h o ulders; a
b | u e S h / e ! d
W ith W hi t e
stars at each
The Washington times., 1938-06-06
By JOHN o'poNNELL AND DORIS FLEEsoN

Fashion Note-The handsomest pair of gauses that
held the pants of doing for President
Roosevelt One of these Washington afternoons the
quick eye of F. D. r. caught glimpse of War Secretary
Harry Woodrings suspenders when that vesess dgntary
unbuoned his coat and leaned back his chair during long
conference. He explained to not too inter.
President exnressed colleagues that he had