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Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. '38, 1L, son of the Ambassador to Great Britain, will attend the Democratic national convention as a delegate from Massachusetts and has pledged his vote to Postmaster General James A. Farley for president...
...Committee, facing a choice of San Francisco, Philadelphia, Houston or Chicago for its forthcoming National Convention, did not debate long before deciding on Chicago again. In the Willard Hotel the committee heard a great deal of Third Term talk in the lobby (but none on the floor) ; heard Chairman Farley say a pleasant word for Candidate Garner; talked, chatted, speculated, while members plumped for their cities and Chairman Farley blasted the no-program Republicans...
...crass seduction distinguished Philadelphia's appeal, as five orators on-&-onned, pledged good weather (a perilous undertaking, even if the convention date had been set), displayed a certified check for $125.000. Sneered Philadelphian Kelly of Chicagoan Kelly's righteous appeal, "I can't imagine Jim Farley thinking there is anything indecent about $125,000." and promised that delegates would have a good time, said that "no place will be closed at four o'clock, not even Independence Hall...
...although Mayor Kelly had to stride up & down the aisle, acting as his own floor marshal; and the vote was close. In no time newspaper correspondents added it up as another sign of strength for the third-term drive, since Mayor Kelly had spoken for it. and even Chairman Farley had mentioned the 10,000,000 independent voters whose votes, third-termers believe, can be brought out only by glamorous, dramatic Franklin Roosevelt...
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