Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor Kelly was ordered to set the stage. As a veteran Chicago politician. Boss Ed had his own ideas about "spontaneous" demonstrations. Leaving nothing to chance, he ordered "the works." Plan was to bring in hundreds of placard-staves, to distribute hundreds of noisemakers (whistles, bells) to the galleries; one sitting band, one marching band and the pipe organ would contribute to the spontaneous ovation. To clinch matters, the loudest man in Chicago politics, Superintendent of Sewers Tom Garry (see p. 14), was stationed at the public-address system to give out with lots of voice...
Meantime the preparations went on in stealthy earnest. Wave after wave of cardboard banner signs, "Roosevelt and Humanity," were brought in by Mayor Kelly's tough-faced friends, who stood in the aisles...
...loose. But most of the delegates stood pat in their places, staring anxiously at the panting, roaring marchers. Then Mr. Garry broke loose. As the noise died from time to time, good Mr. Barkley would shout into the microphone: "We want Roosevelt!" Thus encouraged, Mr. Garry redoubled his roars. Mayor Kelly beamed; a man sitting in his box shouted, "Hey, Ed, We Planned It That Way!" One & all thought this was the witticism of the evening...
...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 lowered the microphone, and Glass's hoarse whisper filled the stadium: ". . . An incomparable Democrat ... a man on whose word every human being can always rely. . . . Thomas Jefferson. . . . Since I have been sitting on this platform I have had two anonymous communications objecting to Jim Farley because he is a Catholic...
...Farley and Carter Glass came a genuine ovation, short and loud, but mixed with booing. Loyally the Farley-men stood up, waved banners. But Mayor Kelly's organist was silent. The band forgot to play. In a moment the Farley "parade" was over...