REPUBLICANS: Before the Flood

The carpenters were still pounding, the painters still painting, the sign saying "This Is A WPA Job" was still on" the sidewalk in front of Cleveland's Public Hall, when the preliminaries of the Republican National Convention got under way. For Republicans were in such a hurry last week that they overflowed Cleveland long before their convention began. More eager than animals to get aboard the Ark before the Flood, politicians came in, not two by two, but ten by ten.

Euclid Avenue was filled with old familiar faces, some of whom...

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