National Affairs: Candidate Adds

Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York, left his state Capital, went to the Bronx, attended the wedding of a niece. From the church the Governor did not go to the wedding breakfast. He went to a parochial school next door where youngsters greeted him, waving the Star Spangled Banner and singing The Sidewalks of New York. The Governor of New York made an address: "Only hard work and hard study can carry the children of the sidewalks of New York, and"—the presidential candidate added—"the children of the country—to success and...

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