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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...tightly in their rows and boxes in the teeming hothouse of Chicago Stadium last week, flooded with artificial light, seething and waving in a slow chaos of mob emotions, the Democracy presented a spectacle not unlike the steaming jungle of man's origin. Predominant were the lowest of political vegetables???the common or garden delegates with no thought or power but to vote as instructed by the folks at home or the bosses in the hothouse. Planted among them were some of society's finest flowers?Byrds from Virginia, Maryland's Ritchie, New York's Davis. Like Irish potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Congress Hotel Deal | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

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