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unfortunate that Stephen Mitchell, for instance, has abolished the woman's division in the Democratic National Committee, although it's been covered over with the glowing word “integrated” - they've integrated the woman's division as though they were raising them from the slime to the throne - is that, actually, it means that they're out. Sure somebody has a desk, but she hasn't got any initiative to go and plan a program of her own and carry it out among women, no matter what anybody else thinks. That's what has made the woman's division the best part of the Democratic organization. I think it's a very great mistake. Most of the women that I know are very much disturbed about it.

This importance of women stems back largely to the national success of the women's division that began under Miss Dewson in 1932, when that campaign was going. I had known Miss Dewson for years. At that time I also became acquainted with Miss Dorothy McAllister of Michigan. I'm not sure whether she was Miss Dewson's principal assistant, or what she was, but she came into the picture. She was around everywhere. She was an extraordinarily capable woman. She was young, the younger generation. She was probably twenty-five years younger than Miss Dewson.

There were many more. There was Mrs. May Thompson Evans from North Carolina, and another lady from North Carolina.