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Delay. If he could answer the people, the press, the Convention, there remained the problem of answering the Democratic Party that was going into a campaign in which it would be unseemly for the President to take an active part. From a dimly lighted, peach-colored telephone booth in the...
At first, because the stout old bantam cock couldn't reach the man-size micro phone, his gravelly voice grated away in a scratchy whisper for nearly a minute, to great choruses of boos and shouts of "louder!" from Mayor Kelly's men. Then the P. A. operator...
Next a Baltimore delegate, Edward J. Colgan Jr., nominated Millard Tydings interminably, pausing at last to remark doggedly "... I have given you but a partial picture . . ." to a cacophony of heartfelt boos. For Tydings there was but one feeble cheer. Wright Moody, a ponderous grey-haired Texan, nominated John Nance...
Said Delegate Durbin: "The only thing I don't like in Chicago is the Tribune and the Hearst newspapers." There were cheers and boos. "For God's sake, Mr. President, if you are listening in, let's have someone like Jim Farley! . . ." Then Rebel Durbin came to...
By this time the boos, mingled with a few cheers, were deafening. When Mr. Sigourney finished his speech, the crowd staged its confetti battle, fought with more vigor than enjoyment. That night Harvard was a house divided.