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Strategy of the McNutt drive for nomination will be precisely the same as at San Antonio eleven years ago. Already emissaries have poured out of the Claypool Hotel to friends of other States' favorite sons, cheering those sons on and inviting second-choice votes for Paul McNutt. With the President ahead of him and Jim Farley against him, Paul McNutt's only possible chance of nomination is in a deadlocked convention, like the Republican one out of which an Ohio gang brought Warren Harding. If he gets up enough steam beforehand, he may help create the deadlock.
Last week he had got nowhere near that objective. He was thoroughly vexed because his friend Senator Shay Minton had blurted out last fortnight: "Our whole [McNutt] campaign is based upon the assumption that President Roosevelt is not going to be a candidate." Paul McNutt is an able politician who can cover a lot of ground, and if he is to have a chance in the Democratic convention of 1940 he has a lot of ground to cover. Last week he may have regretted that he has been so long out of sight and out of mind of the U. S. electorate.
*Referring of course to the custard-apple. In some parts of the world the papaya, a tropical tree with melon-like fruit, is also called pawpaw.
†Philippine business interests are reported ready to back McNutt-for-President with $1,000,000, to keep the islands within the U. S. tariff and defense walls.