The Roosevelt Week

Last week Franklin Roosevelt laid his plans for the Republican National Convention. Whether Congress adjourns for good or merely recesses over the convention, the President announced that he would leave Washington the day before the Republicans officially assemble in Cleveland. On the second day of their convention he would be in Little Rock, making a speech on behalf of Arkansas' Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who is up for reelection. Next Presidential stops will be Houston, San Antonio and Dallas where, presumably on the day that the Republicans nominate their candidate, he will address a rally of 40,000 Texans at the Texas Centennial Exposition. For this simple plan some wiseacres attributed to the President great political astuteness and an impish desire to steal headlines from the Republican convention.

P: A Cabinet meeting was broken up last week when the Secretary of the Navy unexpectedly appeared. Seventy-four-year-old Claude Swanson has been confined for the last four months to Washington's Naval Hospital. Hastily the meeting adjourned outdoors where Secretary Swanson sat in the back seat of his open car with President Roosevelt beside him, while other members gathered around to pass the time of day.

P:One day the President put his signature on Senator George Norris' Rural Electrification Bill, under which the Government will lend $50,000,000 in the coming year, $40,000,000 for each of the nine years thereafter for rural electrification. Night before that he had his most pleasant conference of the week. With Felix Frankfurter at his side, he welcomed Senators Norris, Wagner, Minton. Wheeler, Schwellenbach, Shipstead, La Follette. They assured the Press afterward that it was nothing but a friendly chat. So friendly was the gathering of nine arch-liberals that it lasted from 8:30 o'clock in the evening until after midnight.

P: Stealing a three-day weekend. President Roosevelt skipped off to Hyde Park, found his mother in bed with a "slightly fractured" thighbone, the result of tripping over a step as she left the Manhattan apartment of her granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger. There he scuttled about his acres in his own car, went to church, looked in on a local baseball game, pressed a button opening a new harbor development at Balboa. Calif. Then he wished his mother a speedy recovery, boarded his special train, sped back to Washington.

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