THE PRESIDENCY: Advice from Chicago

Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago had a two-hour lunch last week with President Roosevelt. That day and the next he conferred at length and stormily with Harry Hopkins, John Daniel Hertz (ex-Yellow Cab magnate and now with Army's Motor Transport Division), who is a friend of Kelly's, a father confessor to Hopkins; Federal Lender Jesse Jones, and other key insiders. What Mayor Kelly said was not reported in the press. It would have made big headlines if it had been.

The U.S. at large does not regard Chicago's curly-haired mayor as a...

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