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"Are you going to use that sponge or do you want Auntie Jezebel to scrub you?" (Nationalization of mines.)  (The Coal Commission.) (Coal Industry.) (Guffey-Vinson Law.) (Which shall it be?)

1. Which Shall It Be?

(We'd Like to Help Too, Mr. Guffey.) (F.D.R. 1st term) ("Canceled by the Supreme Court") (F.D.R. 2nd term) ("Canceled by the tories") (F.D.R. 3rd term) (To Senator Holt with kindest regards, Bruce Russell)

2. We'd Like To Help Too, Mr. Guffey

(The most famous voter in our district this morning.) "Look!  He voted the straight Democratic ticket!" "Why--he isn't on the public payroll!" "And he isn't on relief, either!" "My goodness--think of it!" (Federal jobholders) (State jobholders) (WPA vote) (Road com. vote) (Relief vote) (AAA vote) (Coal com. vote) (FHA vote) "Am I seeing things?" (Ballot)

3. The Most Famous Voter in our District This Morning

(1928 Anti-third term resolution) "That's it, take that thing down." (Barkley) (Pork) (Harrison)  (King)  (Pittman) (3rd term campaign plan) (Pork) (McKellar) (Patronage) (Wagner) (Pork) (Neely) (Patronage) (Appointments) (Sheppard) (Pork) (Ashurst) (3rd term campaign plans)

4. That's It, Take That Thing Down

(That big-check suit that was hung on Harry.) (Hopkins) "It doesn't belong to me!" "It fits perfectly" ("Spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect" statement)

5. That Big-Check Suit That Was Hung on Harry

(!933 (no election)) (1934 (election summer)) (1935 (no election)) (1936 (election summer)) (1937 (no election)) (1938 (election summer)) (W.P.A. Rolls) (Politics) (Thar's Gold In Them Thar Hills!)

6. Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills!

"Third term--no third term--third term--no third term" "If he would just decide on which daisy!" "Maybe it's the 1940th!" (Wallace boom) (Garner boom) (F.D.R.)

7. Still Keeping Them In Suspense

(Sprouting again) "Hm-m" (Third term talk) (U.S. public) (Two term precedent)

8. Sprouting Again

(Relief Rolls) "Harry, it's sorta a coincidence that it reached its peak on election day, isn't it?" (Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.) (Harry Hopkins) (Taxpayer)

9. Relief Rolls

(No wonder he leans on his shovel!) (Candidates to vote for) (Political Abuse) (WPA)

10. No Wonder He Leans On His Shovel

(Business) (New tax bill) (House)

11. New Tax Bill

(Harry Hopkins) (New Deal critics)

12. New Deal Critics