POLITICAL NOTES: Melons & Motive

Well does Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper know how to pleasure his friends. He does it by importing watermelons from his native South Carolina. So tender and so succulent are these great green fruit that he has them brought by automobile lest they be damaged traveling by rail. Last week he pleasured newshawks by presenting his weekly press conference with two enormous South Carolina melons, 3 ft. long and weighing, by report, 80 Ib. each.

To the Administration, however, pleasuring the Press is currently less important than pleasuring businessmen who are jittery...

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