POLITICAL NOTES: Direct Contact

Monday, Jun. 26, 1939

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Two months ago Harry Hopkins said he would resume residence in Iowa so that his motherless daughter, Diana, 7, could have a "real home." Last week, to make good, he leased for two years from Aetna Life Insurance Co. a 388-acre farm three miles north of Grinnell, Iowa, where he went to attend his college class reunion. On a neighboring farm he had worked as a hand when a boy. Before returning to Washington, he went out to look over his new crops (69 acres corn, 32 acres oats, ten acres soy beans). Said he: "Farmers have for the first time in history become conscious of their relationship to the Government through direct contact with it and help from it."

Question: "How is President Roosevelt going to get around the third-term bugaboo?"*

Hopkins: "You've got the answer when you say 'President Roosevelt.' "

^{* Vice President Garner and others last week dissuaded West
Virginia's anti-Roosevelt young Senator Rush Holt from introducing a
resolution to put the Senate on record against a third term. Such
resolutions were passed to head off third terms for Ulysses S. Grant
and Calvin Coolidge. Reason for Garner & Co.'s delay: lack of a
sufficiently impressive majority just yet for the resolution.}