The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-26
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ROOSEVELT KEPT HIS
POKER FACE

POKER FACE
CHICAGO.-There was only one
other person present when the Pres
ident heard the first speech at the
convention nominating him for =
third term.
The visitor was Mrs. Hattie Cara
way. Arkansas witty, motherly
U. S. senator, who entered his White
House Office for q conference Just
as Mayor Ed Kelly was starting his
address Of welcome. In this, Kelly
declared that he knew Roosevelt did
not want to run, but that he should
be drafted anyway.
The President was getting the
speech from a small portable radio
on his desk. AZ Mrs. Caraway en-
tered he greeted her with a smile,
motioned to q chair and toned down
the radio.
From then on he listened in grave
silence. When Kelly declared that
Roosevelt had to be drafted to Save
the heart Of humanity" the Presi-
dents face became solemn. Then
as Kelly continued, Roosevelt
seemed to sink deeper and deeper
into himself.
Once or twice he glanced at Mrs.
Caraway, but his face was inscrut-
able. It was impossible to tell what
he was thinking.
Presidents mood lifted and when the
Chicago mayor finished, Roosevelt
smiled, threw back his head and
said, well. the mayor is getting to
be quite an orator"
That was all. Mrs. Caraway
asked no questions about the con-
vention and the President volun-
teered nothing.
Note-The day the convention
opened, Mrs. Roosevelt told an old
friend that she was reconciled to
the President running again. IF he
has to do it." she said, then there
is nothing else to do. know he
doesn't want to run, but there seems
to be no alternative"
WHITE HOUSE PIPELINE
From the moment Harry Hopkins
landed here last week and that open
wire was set up between his suite
308-l0 In the Blackstone hotel and
the White House, the President has
been infinitely informed of every
thing that has happened. From ear
ly morning until late at night the
wire has buzzed with reports from
Washington.
Roosevelt leaders have kept him
informed of what was being said
and rumored in the hotel Hobbies.
And some Of the politicos are In
for q shock when they learn that
certain cracks they thought they
were making in private are tucked
away in Roosevelt's retentive men,
DRY. Whatever else the third-term
organization may have lacked, 1t
was good on Intelligence" Every
delegation and headquarters was
covered" by friendly contact who
kept Hopkins and his lieutenants ad-
vised Of inside developments.
STAGNANT CONVENTION
1t was a good thing that they
were, too. For with time dragging
on their hands, delegates seized ev-
cry rumor and promptly spilled II
to the press.
II administration leaders could
have had their way, they would have
condensed the convention into three
days and wound it up by Wednes-
day. They even discussed doing
this, but when it got to Jim Farley
he promptly put down his foot. Bent
on forcing q roll-call in order to have
himself placed in nomination, Jim
warned that he would fight any at
tempt to short-circuit the conven-
ton.
The administrationites couldn't
risk an open row, so they had to
absorb the opposition's brickbats
and make the best of it. But II
burned them up, and there are a lot
of private scores to be settled later.
Note-One Roosevelt leader, urR-
ing Farley to forget his grievances
and remain as national chairman,
said: Jim, II you quit, the public
will forget all about you In six
months"
That's okay with me-" shot back
Farley. when quit as chairman,
want to be forgotten" In addition
to heading the Yankee ball club,
Farley also Will take an executive
position with a nationally known adj
vertising firm.
MERRY GO ROUND
Chinese Ambassador HUI Shin says
blitzkrieg methods won't work in
China, because our spaces are
broad and our peoples too many"
While Washington warmly debates
the question, "Will we or won't we7"
the old wartime song, "Mademoi-
selle From Armentieres," Is coming
back.
A group of IS Latin American
ladies Of the diplomatic circle put
on white costumes and gather at
the Red Cross building to make
bsndages.
Beautiful Mrs. Harry Woodring,
who has spent all her life in Massa-
chusetts and Washington, is being
kidded about going out TO live on
the prairies Of Kansas. But Helen