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Moody. "I am Very sorry, Governor, if I am late, but I have just had a session with my dentist," said Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York to Governor Dan Moody of Texas.

"Well, Governor, if these New York dentists are like those I've had down in Texas, you have my sympathy," said Governor Moody.

"They are all," said Governor Smith, "bad enough."

Thus, last week, two famed Democratic Governors met for the first time, discussed dentists, avoided politics. Governor Moody was in Manhattan as the head of a Goodwill Delegation of some 125 Texans,...

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