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...fact is that Arthur Mullen, floor manager for Mr. Roosevelt, took an adjournment at the psychological moment. There were possibilities of desertions on the Roosevelt side and had the balloting continued without interruption there is no telling what might have happened. The Anti-Roosevelt groups were certain that they would make gains on the next ballot. But the recess of several hours permitted a reorganizing of the battle lines. During this interval the New Deal was born in a deal that brought McAdee and Garner into the fold and made the necessary two-thirds...
...Roosevelt is the product of a political deal insofar as the nomination was concerned. But had it not been for Arthur Mullen's keen management of the Roosevelt strategy there might have been a collapse of the Roosevelt delegations. For the moment they started deserting it would have been like the champ Clark ascendency in 1912, when his followers had achieved a majority but Wilson came from behind and won the nomination
Arthur F. Mullen balked at resigning his good job as Nebraska's Democratic National Committeeman just because he had been doing a thumping good business as a lawyer-lobbyist in Washington since last spring. Said he: "I do not claim to have any 'back door' to the White House and I practice law on my own merits alone. ... I have been a National Committeeman for many years and I have not found my profession in conflict with my office...
...orchestra played "East Side. West Side." "Everybody sing.'' urged the master of ceremonies. Silence. John A. Mullen, chairman of the speakers' bureau, read from a letter: "For my own protection and to save embarrassment I have cut out all dinners. . . . Alfred E. Smith." Hisses. Boos...
...Utica. N. Y. Anna Mullen was shot twice through the brain, lived...