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Nobody was converted. They were going to vote the straight ticket anyhow.

Some of the women who were important in the Democratic campaign of 1932 were Mrs. Norman Mack, Mrs. Alice Good, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Miss Bernice Pike, and a national committee woman from Chicago whose name eludes me. All of these women were much older than Mrs. India Edwards, who is now so prominent, but whom I don't recall as having any important part in the campaign in 1932. Mrs. India Edwards I had never heard of at that time. She may have been around, but she was young and somewhere down the line. Mrs. Edwards is still a young woman, and this, of course, was twenty-odd years ago.

Mrs. J. Borden Harriman I've always known. She was the Democratic Committee Woman from the District of Columbia as she now is and has been for many years. I made a speech with her in that campaign, in Philadelphia I think.

Mrs. William H. Good of New York was a Committee Woman. Mrs. Norman Mack was, too. She is a great friend of mine. She's probably forgotten completely, because she's old, resigned and sick now. She came from Buffalo. Mrs. Good is still around and able.

Of course, Miss Mary Dewson was the Chairman of a Woman's Committee working for the election of Roosevelt.





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