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It proved to be an exclusive dinner to which Mayor Kelly had invited the people that he thought were important in the convention. That meant the leaders of the delegations from every State, all Cabinet officers who were there, all Senators who were at the convention, past luminaries and so forth. There were more than a hundred people there - somewhere between a hundred and two hundred. He had taken a small ballroom in some hotel.

The girls, as I began to call them - Susanna, Mary, and Belle - said, “We can go with you, can't we, up to the lobby of this ballroom so we can see the people going in?” They did. They were just hangers-on, but there were quantities of other hangers-on, quantities of other people were milling around and looking at everybody, pointing out celebrities.

The platform committee had been meeting not in that same ballroom, but on that same mezzanine. It was there that I ran into John L. Lewis and Philip Murray, coming out of what had been a preliminary meeting of the platform committee. It hadn't been a formal, official meeting of the platform committee. I think Robert Wagner was chairman of the platform committee, if my memory serves me. It was a sub-committee dealing with certain specified subjects. Lewis had been rampaging up and





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