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More than 24 hours after tall Franklin Delano Roosevelt had introduced New York's "happy warrior"; after Maryland's Ritchie, Kentucky's Barkley and Wyoming's Ross and several others had seconded him, with phrases ranging from "this sea of faces" to "a living, pulsating, understanding heart"?the balloting began. Soon the name of Alfred Emanuel Smith belonged to the almanacs...
They sat up late in the Tammany headquarters, arguing it now this way and now that, with Boss Olvaney and other Tammanyites as polite judges. But there was only one "logical" candidate and eventually all were agreed. They could not have Senator Barkley of Kentucky because he had made speeches for Anti-Saloon League pay. They could not have Representative Hull of Tennessee for a similar reason. Evans Woollen, Indiana banker, was too little known. White-crested Senator Reed of Missouri scarcely figured; he had been so vociferously eager. William Randolph Hearst had sent a message recommending Major George...
...Senator Barkley asked about Hooverism's relations with Will Hays and other suspicious public characters. The answers being barren, he asked if Candidate Hoover was not a man "of considerable means...
...Senator Barkley went on about cinema, the Scripps-Howard press and a variety of matters, including chinaware. Had the Secretary of Commerce called a meeting of china manufacturers last year and suggested they could raise their prices...
...Barkley:". . . Have you any knowledge that they did make such an increase...