Clean Sweep

Before departing for fun on the deep. President Roosevelt last week made a clean sweep of "must" jobs. Day by day he gradually waded through the big legacy of bills left by Congress. In his favorite frank way he announced that would resort to no sly pocket vetoes. Instead he wrote upon 31 private bills: "disapproved and signature withheld, Franklin D. Roosevelt."* Two important measures he did sign: the Farm Bankruptcy Act and the Railroad Retirement Act, which, in future, will cost the railroads some $60,000,000 per year to pension off their 65-year-oldsters.

P:Rat-tat-tat like a machine gun. the President rapped out a long series of appointments to important offices created by new laws. As administrator of the new Housing Act he appointed James A. Moffett, onetime vice president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, who lost his job year ago in a quarrel with Walter C. Teagle over supporting the Administration's oil policy. To the new Communications Commission he named Eugene O. Sykes and Thad H. Brown, Chairman and Vice Chairman of the now defunct Federal Radio Commission, and added Paul Walker (Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner). Norman Case (onetime Governor of Rhode Island), Irvin Stuart (State Department radio expert). George Henry Payne (journalist). Hampson Gary (Wilson's Minister to Switzerland). The President also appointed the Securities & Exchange Commission, three labor boards and picked William Augustus Ayres, longtime Democratic Representative from Wichita, Kans. to succeed James M. Landis on the Federal Trade Commission.

P:Two formal diplomatic rituals the President took in his stride: he received Ambassador Mehmet Munir Bey of Turkey and credentials; he gave a formal luncheon for Dr. Don Alfonso Lopez, president-elect of Colombia.

P:To all his chief aides the President sent two orders: 1) they must find time to take 30-day vacations this summer; 2) they must not make any partisan political speeches.

P: President and Mrs. Roosevelt joined in sending a telegram ''of courage and cheer" to Marie Dressler, reported to be dying of cancer at Santa Barbara.

*Total Roosevelt vetoes to date: 41.

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