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mind that wasn't as well-trained. He was stocked with learning. She had quantities of practical experience, a brilliant and penetrating mind, but not trained and not really conversant with the learning of the world. So far as I could observe them, whenever there was a difference of opinion with regard to political matters, or matters of legislation, programs, matters of direction of one enterprise or another, it was always Henry who won the debate. Belle listened to him. She at once recognized a superior mentality and a disinterested person. He was objective and not emotionally too much involved in these questions that they debated.

I don't think there was any rift between them, therefore, because of this Roosevelt candidacy. I don't remember what Belle did. I know that Henry Moskowitz was very active. I know that soon after the election he was down in Washington serving on various committees, always terribly interested in keeping the contact between the administration in Washington and the New York group that had supported Roosevelt, particularly the ones he'd been responsible for. He had organized a lot of these independent groups. Curiously, I don't remember what she did. It's possible that the record will show that she entered into headquarters and did something. Certainly that would be what Al Smith asked her to do, but she didn't enter into it with any great fire. Mary Dewson was carrying





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