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That very suite (308-09) was historic before Harry Hopkins' advent: there, about 2 a.m. on the morning of June 12, 1920, a sweating, anxious group of G. O. P. Old Guardsmen had chosen to nominate romanesque Warren Gamaliel Harding, fulfilling Harry Daugherty's prophecy and indelibly stamping...
Next day the platform crept out, as forthright against sin as all platforms, and after New York's Senator Robert A. Wagner had read the whole document through, the delegates knuckled down to their task. Taking no chances whatever, Hopkins & Co. had commandeered Senator Lister Hill of Alabama to...
U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull carefully hung up his grey tropical worsteds, drooped his black shoes outside the door of Compartment D, eased his lanky bones into bed. Stay-ups among his staff of 25 and the 14 accompanying newsmen clustered about the club-car radio, listening to...
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...
Observers said they had never seen such a convention. The Republicans had been leaderless; the Democrats had been bossed into apathy. They were there for just one purpose, and they knew it-to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt. Those who were not on the Democratic payroll made no secret of their...