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Whether she was chairman of the women's division of the National Democratic Committee, or whether she was chairman of a special volunteers' committee, or a special committee for the election of Roosevelt, I can't at the moment say. At any rate, she might have been either one. She was functioning as though she were the head of the women's division of the National Democratic Committee. I suppose there was a women's division at that time, but it had been inactive, or a “me-too” kind of a thing, until Miss Dewson took over what was being done.

She was a very energetic, dynamic person, who, of course, had been interested in Roosevelt as a possibility for President since long before Chicago, before the convention. That was what Jim Farley used to say -“FRBC,” or for Roosevelt Before Convention. That was kind of a measure of whether you were reliable or not. She had helped Farley in a good many of the approaches that he made throughout the country in the preliminary canvass of the people in the various states, as to whether they would support Roosevelt in the convention. This business of gathering up delegates in the different states and being sure they're yours is an awfully tricky job. Farley began this operation in New York at least a couple of years back,