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would I turn up for this ten o'clock speech. That would still give me time to take “The Owl,” which doesn't leave until twelve o'clock. So I said I would.

How I got there, or from where, I don't recall, but some political committee got me. It was probably La Rue Brown. He was operating widely in the political field at that time. Somebody got me from one place to the other. I think I had spoken at a ladies' luncheon that day which had been arranged. It was at the Ritz, I think. It was a very superior ladies' luncheon. It was not meant for the common people. It was meant for the more lady-like aspects of Boston, who might be persuaded to vote for Roosevelt on account of how they were disgusted with Hoover, and on account of how they thought Roosevelt was a gentleman. That was the line.

Anyhow my experience at this rank and file meeting was interesting because it was so typical of the politics of that day. This is where I became so intimately acquainted with “Honey Fitz,” as he was called. He was not then the mayor of Boston, but had only recently been out. He is the father-in-law of Joseph Kennedy, our Ambassador to England at one time, and the grandfather of the present (1953) Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts. He was a typical, old-fashioned Irish politician. He was called