Fourth term market gets bullish again
By Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer
Washington –
Every flick of President Roosevelt’s cigarette, every flicker of the eyelash, the tone of his voice – all these little signs are interpreted these days when he is asked at his press conferences about a fourth term.
Therefore, it may be reported today the market is bullish again for a fourth-term try.
Not that the President said so. But he didn’t deny it. No longer, as a month ago, did he dismiss it as a “picayune” question.
He enjoys repartee
It was one of those things, he said, and there was no news on it.
But he was not blunt or brusque, as sometimes in the part, to the political inquiries put by reporters when they saw that he did not mind them. Instead, he seemed to welcome them and enjoy the repartee.
The inevitable question was raised again in connection with Vice President Henry A. Wallace’s statement in San Francisco that he “suspected” Mr. Roosevelt would run again.
Mr. Wallace’s “suspicions” are worth nothing. For he boasts that he knew in March 1940, before even the President himself knew, that Mr. Roosevelt would be a candidate for a third term.
Soldier-vote victory
Mr. Roosevelt may have been elated at his press conference by the Senate action in tacking the Green-Lucas federal ballot bill on the House’s “states’-rights” measure, which assures at least consideration of a short federal ballot for soldier voting in the conference between the two branches.
It was a partial victory for the administration.