"Conservative Party"

The political title "Conservative Party," recommended to his foes by Franklin Roosevelt, was pre-empted in New York State last week by loud-mouthed Republican George Upton Harvey, Borough President of Queens. The Conservative platform: the Constitution and the Ten Commandments, to fight Communism. Fascism, Naziism. C.I.O., American Labor Party and Franklin Roosevelt's intended "purge" of Democratic Representative John J. O'Connor. Heading a full State ticket as candidate for Governor is Conservative Harvey.

P:From his own profession, advertising, came the first nomination of Representative Bruce Barton of Manhattan for President of the U. S. In Advertising & Selling, Publicist Harford Powel quoted Mr. Barton's vigorous advice to Indiana's Republican State Convention that Republicans must again win the confidence of all classes of people (TIME. July 11). Said Publicist Powel: "He is the only man in politics with a radio voice that you could back against the voice of President Roosevelt. . . . The grand strategy, if you want to beat the New Deal, is to find a man who can deserve the loyalty and faith of all the little men and women in the land." Meanwhile, Republican chiefs definitely decided on Bruce Barton as one of their candidates for New York's two U. S. Senators to be elected this fall.

P:In Llewellyn Park. N. J.. Mrs. John Eyre Sloane, daughter (Madeleine) of the late great Thomas Alva Edison, sister of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, announced herself a Republican candidate for nomination to a seat in Congress.

P:When New Dealer Maury Maverick was defeated for renomination in San Antonio, Tex. last July, the New Deal's local fences obviously needed mending. Last week Oscar Morgan Powell, 39. regional U. S. Social Security director, popular San Antonio lawyer, was called to Washington to succeed Frank Bane, resigning as Executive Director (No. 2 man) of the Social Security Board. Effective date: November 1. Almost simultaneously a special representative of the U. S. Attorney General, accompanied by two agents of the FBI, arrived in town to look into the primary in which Assistant District Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday beat New Dealer Maverick by less than 1,000 votes.

P:Secretary of the Treasury Henry ("The Morgue") Morgenthau Jr. confirmed a notice issued by him in 1934 advising Treasury employes that they could contribute to party campaign funds so long as they did it voluntarily, without coercion or improper solicitation, and did not give money to "a person in the service of the United States." Chairman Sheppard of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, who had cracked down on Internal Revenue workers for contributing to the cause of Senator-reject McAdoo of California (TIME, Aug. 8), huffed, puffed, said such a difference of opinion proved the necessity of rewriting the campaign funds law.

P:After weeks of Purge cartoons Franklin Roosevelt's remarks last fortnight about the "immorality" of Republicans voting in Democratic primaries had the effect last week of driving a new herd of the vanishing Republican elephants through the nation's cartoons. The Elephant came back in many guises, as a sea monster, a daydreaming tippler, a muezzin, a Peeping Tom (see cuts).

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