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BURTON K. WHEELER, MONT., CHAIRMAN
ELLISON D. SMITH, s.c.
WALLACE H. WHITE, JR., MAINE
ROBERT F. WAGNER, N.Y.
JAMES J. DAVIS, PA.
ALBEN w. BARKLEY, KY.
WARREN R. AUSTIN, VT.
M. M. NEELY, W. VA.
WILLIAM H. DIETERICH, ILL.
AUGUSTINE LONERGAN, CONN.
United States Senate
FRED H. BROWN, N.H
HOMER T. BONE, WASH.
VIC DONAHEY, OHIO
COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE
SHERMAN MINTON, IND.
HARRY S. TRUMAN, MO.
CHARLES O. ANDREWS, FLA.
EDWIN c. JOHNSON, COLO.
HARRY H. SCHWARTZ, WYO.
Washington, D. C.
LISTER HILL, ALA.
February 9, 1939
HENRIK SHIPSTEAD, MINN.
M. W. MITCHELL, CLERK
Honorable Edgar G. Hinde
Postmaster
Independence, Missouri
Dear Edgar:
Appreciated highly your good letter of the Sixth,
and I am certainly sorry that you have been trying to have
the flu. I hope you don't succeed. I have had to buy so
many flowers in the last thirty days for people who succeeded
in having it that I don't care about spending any more money
right at the present time, particularly on the postmaster
from Independence.
I am glad you got to see Jim Mack, and I also
appreciated most highly your comment on Uncle Willie.
Headline hunters are the same the world over. It
makes no difference whether his name is Theodore, Franklin,
Lloyd or Allen -- they are all just alike.
I had lunch yesterday with the Governor of New
Jersey, Harry Moore, who is a regular fellow, and he invited
me to spend a week-end with him at Sea Girt next spring at the
Governor's Mansion. He gets $20,000 a year as Governor of
New Jersey, two mansions kept up by the State, and $17,000
a year as an expense account. He told Louie Schwellenbach
and me that he would just as soon spend some of the $17,000
on a couple of Senators as to spend it on his Republican New
Jersey Legislature. I think we will probably accept his invi-
tation.
Your campaign suggestions are always thankfully
received, and I will appreciate your being entirely frank with
them. I appreciate most highly what the Mayor is doing, and
I believe it is helping considerably.
Remember me to all the gang and tell that bunch of
high-binders that I gave three or four Congressmen a very high-
priced lesson in how not to call a few days ago.
Sincerely yours,
HST/cb
Harry S. Truman
Thing
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