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Governor Al Smith, it was believed, had chosen Franklin D. Roosevelt, his campaign manager, to nominate him???a sort of return compliment, since Governor Smith seconded Mr. Roosevelt's nomination for Vice President in 1920. For a seconder of his nomination, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, sister of Lady Astor, was suggested...
...What Senator was so short that he had his seat and automobile altered to fit him???The late Senator Knox, colleague of Penrose. "Who was the only man who ever took off his coat in the House of Representatives??Elisha Adams Morse, manufacturer of shoe polish, who took off his coat while making a speech, was admonished by Speaker Reed, and put it on again; no one has done it since...
Then comes Cynthia?gay, wise, tender, apparently untouched by material standards. But in the end she also fails him???too much the product of her heritage and environment to escape them...
...Fall then appeared before the Committee, looking worried, but apparently the same stern-faced man so well known in official Washington. One question was asked him???whether he had any statement to make. Thereupon he read an answer, declining to testify on the grounds...
...initial capital? Supposedly his chief speculation was in Standard Oil of New Jersey. But it was almost beyond belief that a young man so far away that the Stock Exchange hours of 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. were actually 11 P. M. to 4 A. M. for him???that he, at the far end of a cable, had made a fortune...