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...doing so, Franklin Roosevelt undercut one of his most loyal friends and party advisers: Boss Edward J. Flynn, Jim Farley's successor as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It was Boss Flynn who helped pick Brooklyn's District Attorney William O'Dwyer as a likely candidate to run against Mayor LaGuardia (TIME, July 28). Said a White House correspondent: "Mr. President, there have been reports . . . that Mr. Flynn would resign if you supported Mayor LaGuardia." The President's smile vanished. He looked hard at the reporter. Then he answered curtly that he did not think...
...right. In Manhattan, a few hours later, Chairman Flynn announced that he would not resign. But Franklin Roosevelt's friend was visibly shaken. Said he: "Free speech is a cardinal principle of American democracy. The President has seen fit to exercise this privilege, and I shall do likewise...
...real issue was, of course, not free speech but party regularity, and Boss Flynn was not the only good Democrat who was shaken by this bit of amiable boat-rocking. In Congress, many a loyal follower of the President thought that Franklin Roosevelt ought to sit down and stop rocking the boat...
...Dwyer, personally no Tammanyite, opened his campaign, like a devout boxer who crosses himself before the bell rings, by formally disowning Tammany (see col. j). Unfortunately all his powerful friends looked like Tammany to many a New York City voter: Alfred E. Smith, Bosses Ed Flynn and Frank Kelly, Jim Farley, Christy Sullivan (the nominal Tammany leader). Certainly Tammany considered O'Dwyer its candidate. O'Dwyer tried to take the war issue out of the campaign by seconding the President's foreign policy. But to his ranks flocked Coughlinites, Bundsters, Isolationists, America-Firsters, anti-Semites, Roosevelt-haters...
...Running comment was provided by Mrs. Clifford: "You old fool. . . . What's an old man like you doing this for? . . . He never kissed me like that. . . . Cliff! You stop that! (De Mille: 'Time.') . . . You come right on home. . . . And wipe off your mouth!" ∙ ∙ Errol Flynn whacked Columnist Jimmie Fidler in a nightclub, claimed Mrs. Fidler wounded him in the ear with her fork. The row was over Fidler's cracks about the movie industry, it Meanwhile attorneys for Flynn and Wife Lili Damita are arranging a property settlement, with a separation in the offing...