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tween two house leaders that may
take a long time to heal.
When Rep. John Mccormack,
Massachusetts liberal, was elected
Democratic floor leader, one Of his
strongest supporters was coli
league who had nothing in common
with Mccormack except friendship
-anti-New Deal, anti-labor Rep.
Gene Cox of Georgia.
It was with hushed establishment,
therefore, that the house listened to
Cox's bitter attack against McCor-
mack during the stormy debate over
the anti-40 hour proposal. His voice
strident in anger, Cox denounced
Mccormack on the ground that his
opposition to abolishing the 40-hour
week was mot good sportsmanship,
and / wonder if it is good leader
ship"
II have hoped" the Georgian
Numbered, shat at some time the
gentleman from Massachusetts,
would come to a realization that he
is supposed to speak for the major
ity of this house rather than for
somebody else"
Friends rushed to McCormack's
defense, but he made no reply. Next
day, however, under McCormack's
leadership, the bill was defeated 226
to Ga tally which left no doubts
about who spoke for the majority"
Note: Two undercover factors
were responsible for this vote, which
probably did not reflect the general
sentiment of the country. One was
a tremendous pressure drive by the
A. F. Of L. and CLIO. in the district
of each congressman. This was par
ticularly effective with Republicans,
who, with their eyes on next falls
congressional elections, are very po-
litical-Ininded. Second, was the fail
ure of the farm bloc to support the
bill because it feared labor reprisals
against the parity and other Doodle
grabs which the farm bloc is after.
The bloc has been counted on to kill
the 40-hour week, but the laborites
served blunt notice that if the bill
was passed, labor would AK the
farmers. Result, the farm bloc ran
for cover and the bill went into the
ashcan.
WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED
The other day Harry Hopkins had
a visitor in the person Of Aubrey
Williams, head of the National
Youth administration, who has been
one of his closest friends for many
years.
Harry" said Williams, looking
around the room in the naval hos
pital, ''how many bottles of medi-
cine have you got there?"
about 49," replied the lend-lease
administrator.
"About Is too many" commented
the National Youth administrator.
"And how many doctors have you
got?"
Hopkins told him.
'sWell, Harry, what's the use of
your fooling around with all these
doctors and all this medicine" said
his friend. "You know that the more
doctors you have the more this
whole thing gets on your nerves.
Now there's only one doctor who
really knew what allied you, and
that's Andy Rivers out at Mayo's in
Rochester. Why don't you have DR..
Rivers come East and get you fixed
up?"
Harry Hopkins acted on his old
friends advice, sent for DR.. Rivers,
and now is out Of the hospital.
He says he has forgotten about
medicine and doctors, and feels bet
ter than he has in months. Fur
thermore, DR.. Rivers has told him
that without any question he can
recover entirely.
NEW COP. CHAIRMAN?
It's very shush-shush, but in GER
tain inner Republican circles there
have been secret pow-wows on re-
placing Rep. Joe Martin as national
chairman.
The Woodworking little Bay Slater
wanted to quit last year, but party
chiefs decided that the wisest course
would be to persuade Martin to stay
for the sake of harmony.
Now some Of the strongest advo-
Gates of his retention are after his
scalp. The hostile fire is from two
sources.
One is from Midwest leaders,
sour on Martin, ~ for his failure to
give them recognition in national
headquarters; ~ for his secret
financial wooing Of Pennsylvania oil
millionaire Joseph Pew and Penn
sylvania steel millionaire Ernest
Weir. -
In the farm belt the two big-money
contributors are political dynamite
and the Midwest COP. chiefs can't
understand why Martin is palling
around with them. So they feel the
time has come for one Of their group
to be named either national chair
man or executive director.
FRENCH PROBLEM
When you get them out of official
earshot, exiled members Of the old
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