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There was a lady known as Nellie Don, who Mrs. Hawes had told us about, who had told Mrs. Hawes - Mrs. Hawes, and I think Senator Hawes believed her very largely - that she could deliver the labor vote. She was always known as Nellie Don, though her maiden name was probably Nellie Donnelly. She said labor people all loved her because she was so “good” to her employees. We learned that she had a large factory and manufactured women's dresses, known as the Nellie Don Dress. It was assumed that we knew all about it, because it must be famous if it was famous in Kansas City. It so happened that neither Mrs. Webb or I had ever heard of it. For a long time I never did meet anybody who had heard of it. Mrs. Donnelly assumed that everybody knew about her factory and their dresses. I think that to a certain extent a part of her interest in this Democratic program was to spread information about her dresses and increase their sales in the East, at least creating a group of women who knew about it, would inquire about it and would mention it.

We met her the first day we were there and were told that she would take us in her car out to this luncheon at the country club, to which she also had been invited. It meant a great deal to her to be invited to it, because she wasn't usually included in the “best” society. Mrs. Hawes told us that she was a social climber and was trying to horn