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From the crest of gigantic Chickamauga Dam, which backs up the waters of the turbulent Tennessee River eight miles above Chattanooga, President Roosevelt this week made his first major address since he accepted the Democratic nomination for the Third Term. Hatless in the withering sun, he sat in the back seat of an open car that had been run up on a hastily-built slack pine ramp. Sweat poured down the President's face, soaked through his seersucker suit...
...crowd that heard Vice-Presidential Candidate McNary disappointed Oregon Republicans, although it was the biggest for a political event in Oregon's history. (For Franklin Roosevelt at Portland in 1932, 8,000; for his dedication of Bonneville Dam in 1937, 6,000.) A small thing before the speech put the crowd in a frame of mind to respond to McNary's appeal to the pioneer spirit. Seven black-robed, black-veiled figures, like those who haunted the Senate during the conscription debate, tried to crash the bleachers, carrying anti-conscription signs. They were quickly ousted, their signs torn...
...effervescent New Dealers, who call him able, shrewd, liberal, weary, lazy, cynical. When he was given the Republican nomination for Vice President they predicted that he would show no enthusiasm in his campaign, if he campaigned at all. They said that since he had voted for TYA, Bonneville Dam, had steadily fought the Hull reciprocal trade agreements, he and Wendell Willkie were on opposite sides of the fence and could never get along...
...Potomac, returned to Washington for two days, left for Hyde Park again. Presidential travels made it plain that citizens faced a delicate problem in discriminating between the actions of President Roosevelt and Candidate Roosevelt. It was announced that he would speak at the dedication of TVA's Chickamauga Dam near Chattanooga on Labor Day, speak again in the Great Smoky Mountains. Then the President will inspect a naval armor and gun plant at South Charleston, W. Va. Recalling that President Roosevelt had declared during the Chicago convention that he thought it unwise to leave Washington during the crisis, statisticians...
...careful to make different from those in their column. Sample scoops: that Roy Howard was "the one exception" mentioned by the President in speaking of those who agreed to serve in National Defense; that Aluminum Co. of America would sign with the U. S. to produce aluminum at Bonneville Dam in Oregon. During Eleanor Roosevelt's appearance on their show, they predicted the President would run again. Quietly passed from Allen to Mrs. Roosevelt after the prognostication was a note that read: "I hope we're not talking through our hats...