National Affairs: Record on Record

One evening last week in the Tropical Room of Chicago's Medinah Athletic Club a hundred newspapermen and a posse of local Republican bigwigs assembled to hear a radio broadcast. What they were going to hear was a secret that few knew. That it was going to be "sensational," that it was going to be broadcast over-station WGN of the bitterly Republican Chicago Tribune and 66 outlets of the Columbia network, was common talk.

Promptly at 8:30 p. m. Benson K. Pratt, GOPressagent, stepped to the microphone to say: "Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, Arthur H....

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