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the usual political meeting with too many people speaking, with a lot of the people speaking for the local candidates as well as a couple of us speaking for the President. I know all this to be necessary in a political meeting, but it made it dull listening, as you listened to why the Cook County corner should be elected, as well as Roosevelt be elected President of the United States.

One thing that interested me on that occasion, because I hadn't noticed until this campaign how much interest had been taken in it, was that I was invariably introduced as the lady who had disputed Herbert Hoover and turned out to be right. When I was introduced at political meetings, this was my chief claim to glory.

I had a great deal to work with in these speeches. I played up large the history of the Democratic party in the State of New York, as I had already done in the Al Smith campaign, because it was popular.

I also made a speech in Boston. It was, I think, in Tremont Temple. Tremont Temple is a religious body which supports the group of buildings. It's undenominational and given to the greatest freedom of thinking in religious matters. It's quite an old institution. It goes back to the days when free thinking in matters of religion was not commonplace.





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