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of the later collapse of the farmer show that. In those days, of course, we were in the peak of prosperity and nobody was talking about anything being wrong with the price of wheat in '28.

I'm pretty sure I met Senator Reed at least once during this tour, but I don't remember meeting him more than once. However, he was all right. He was for Smith. Nellie Don was for Smith and very strongly so. We saw her all the time we were there in and out of meetings.

We went to a number of other places around there. I remember in particular, because nobody could ever forget that, that Mrs. Hawes said, “They want you to come out to Independence tonight and make a speech - you two girls. Are you willing to go?”

We said, “Why, yes, if you want us to. Does the Senator want us to?”

“Well,” she said, “the Senator wants to speak to you about it.”

We waited until Senator Hawes came in. He said, “I think you better go because they've asked for you. I don't want you to go without me.”

We said, “That's very kind of you, Senator.”

He said, “That's very hard and I'll have to arrange it. I had an engagement tonight and I'll have to break it.”





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