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She's been active in Democratic politics since al Smith and a national committee woman all that time. She's a very able woman in her own way. She wasn't an awfully well-educated person, but she was a good judge of political movements and machines. I've always like her very much and have always been glad to see her.

I don't remember now the other women who spoke at that breakfast, but it was a group of Democratic women and national committee women. It was always a very friendly, very jolly occasion. People always make a great effort to be very friendly with each other, to act like one band of brothers when they're at a convention. The intimacies do not last into the more realistic aspects of life, but for the convention people are very intimate friends. This goes for women as as well as men. The usual stand-off snobbishness is all gone and isn't there at all for the period of the convention.

Of course, the business of the convention takes place on the floor, but the things done in the hotels, the talks had there and the agreements made there, not necessarily in a smoke-filled room at midnight, but by accidental meetings in corridors, halls and elevators, with a word here and a word there, are the





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