j The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
| - By -
Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
, WASHINGTON, March 23.—
! Triple-A Administrator Chester
I Davis can have the job of bossing the new farm program
j when he returns from his
| European junket, but insiders
j don't believe he will take it.
j Instead he is expected to step out
l of the agriculture department completely and be placed in charge of
the president's reelection campaign
in the farm belt.
John Hamilton, 44-year-old generalissimo of Governor Alf Landon's
forces, once was opposed by Landon
when Hamilton ran for the Kansas
gubernatorial nomination. . . . During the argument on the Guffey coal
act before the supreme court, Justice
McReynolds, who has opposed every
new deal measure considered by the
tribunal, sent out for a copy of
"Who's Who" and spent considerable
time thumbing its pages. . . . The
order slashing railroad and Pullman
rates brought the interstate commerce commission a new experience.
Instead of the protests and complaints usually flooding it after one
of its decrees, the commission re
turned down a request by Harvard—
the president's alma mater—for i
special stamp to commemorate it
300th anniversary. Reason given for
the rejection: The department did
not want to establish the precedent
of putting out special stamp is
for universities. . . , The first proposal in a six-point farm program I
for the republican party, outlined by
Senator Arthur Capper in the latest |
issue of the "Young Republican,"
calls for exactly the same kind of j
plan the administration put through
congress following the loss of the I
