Out of the crowded, hot assembly chamber of California's capitol at Sacramento walked a pair of famous sons. Arm in arm, they turned on grins that reminded many an onlooker of their fathers' smiles. Bald Jimmy Roosevelt had just been elected chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, the Party's top job in California. Tweedy Will Rogers Jr., nominee for the U.S. Senate, had got it for him.
There had been a remarkable condition: Jimmy Roosevelt had agreed to renounce all connection with the red-fringed Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, which once paid him a $25,000 salary...
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