Democratic politicians of Boston stood in the rain before the portals of the aristocratic Union Club on Beacon Hill, one night last week, asking a liveried flunkey if it were really true that Alfred Emanuel Smith was a guest at a private dinner being given by 40 Brown Derby members of the Harvard faculty and corporation.
It was true. Mr. Smith was inside, sitting on the right of Professor Felix Frankfurter, famed Harvard Law School liberal and Sacco-Vanzetti defender. Close by sat Professor Francis B. Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law. Mr. Smith talked for two hours on Water Power, municipal v. private...
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