The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13

OAC1OAAAoCAN appointments
ONE was when he thought he
was putting 70-year old Wilbur j.
Carr on the shalt by making him
minister to the then secluded
country of Czechoslovakia, but
found instead that he had sent
Carr to the hottest hot spot in
Europe.
THE OTHER when he sent Mrs.
j. Borden Hartman to the peace
full and obscure capital of Norway,
where lady diplomat could make
few mistakes, but aWoke this week
to find Daisy in the middle of
the war zone-and enjoying 1t.
FURTHERMORE, and according
to the State Department which is
definitely prejudiced against lady
diplomats, Mrs. Hartman is doing
an excellent JOHN fact, much
better JOB than some of our other
ministers plenipotentiary.
Mrs. Hartman also is 10 years
old, though few people who have
ever watched her tireless energy
would ever CUES it. In those 70
years she has seen more riders
come and go on the Washington
merry-go-round than almost any
other doWager of Capital society.
SCRAMBLED DINNER PARTIES
DAISY" whose real name is Flor
ence Jaffray Hartman, became
famous during the Harding, Cool
idge and Hoover adminiStrat ton as
a lone Democrat who lived only
for the pleasure of batting the
reigning Republicans. She made
them like it.
Her deliciously scrambled din
ner parties became legendary. She
invited naive and unSuSpecting
Republicans, placed them beside
such rapier debaters as Senator
Tom Walsh, Senator Burton
Wheeler and Charley Nicholson,
then after dinner pushed back the
chairs and made them go to it.
That was before Franklin Roose-
welt had coined the phrase Brain
Trust" but undoubtedly the group
which gathered around Daisy Har-
riman's Sunday night supper table
was its grandparent.
Mrs. Hartman first came to
Washington during the woodrow
Wilson administration, soon after
the death of her husband. She
had been the manager of the
New York State Reformatory for
Women, and President Wilson APP
pointed her as the only woman
member of the Federal Industrial
Relations Commission, which was
a sort of forerunner of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board.
SENATOR TOM WALSH
Mrs. Hartman has many no
table accomplishments to her
career, such as the founding of
the Colony Club in New York and
of the Woman's National Demo-
cratic club in Washington, but
probably in the mind of tickle
Capital society she is chiefly IA
nous for two things: her friend
ship with Senator Tom Walsh of
Montana, and her dirt-pile feud
with Director of the Mint Ray
Baker of Nevada.
The friendship with Walsh
bIossomed about the time ne un-
earthed the Teapot Dome oil
scandals and nearly wrecked the
Harding administration. The
Senator from Montana at that
time was very much the lion of
Washington intellectuals, and
everyone expected him to marry
Daisy Hartman. There was
even a time when Daisy herself
expected it.
Probably it was the senator's
moustache which deferred her. 1t
was of the long, weeping-willow
variety so fashionably among pros
pectorS who have been far away
from civilization and scissors In
Montana. Finally Daisy persuad-
ed the Seantor to trim it, and
there is a suspicion among her
friends that she achieved this only
on the promise that she> would
marry him, and after achieving 1t
went back on her word.
Anyway Walsh was hard to
handle after this, and 1t took sew
eral months of persuasion before
he was willing to be a dociie
guest at her dinner parties once
again.
SOCIAL DIRT
Mrs. Hartman also maintains q
summer home in Bermuda, and II