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a little off on Smith. He doesn't feel very warmly about Smith. He thinks it was a mistake to nominate him.” I was told to kind of convert Mr. Black to the Smith idea.

There were a lot of people at that dinner, including Albert Cabell Ritchie, who was Governor of Maryland in '33. There were all the people that the Cabell Bruces thought were important. It was a beautiful dinner. They had soft shell crabs, as I remember, which were very nice, but I'd never had soft shell crabs before in my life, thought them delicious. They were passed and I took one from a great silver platter heaped with them. I took a soft shell crab onto my plate. Mrs. Cabell Bruce sort of looked alarmed and then interposed, saying, “Oh, my dear, you must take three. Three is the rule in Baltimore. Nobody ever takes less than three crabs.” In other words, I gather it was an insult to the house to have taken less than three. So I promptly took the three. These are the funny little colory things that stick in my memory. It isn't of any importance. I remember the political conversation by the three crabs.

The conversation at the table became general along towards the dessert, and I ceased selling Al Smith to Mr. Black and my other neighbor, whom I don't now remember - maybe it was Mr. Ritchie. Irene, of course, knew them all. They were all friends of hers one way or the other. Mr.