Such a strange, personalized career trajectory for Al Smith, the Irish-Italian-Jewish (maybe?) man from the Fulton Fish Market & of course
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Here’s Smith with some Church dignitariespic.twitter.com/jGNVp7fDHx
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In between all those other things he was the public face of the Empire State Building, which struggled through the Depression
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It’s possible I may have remembered some of that wrong, but you should read Slayton, EMPIRE STATESMAN & Chris Finan, HAPPY WARRIOR
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Will Rogers said, kids will ask Dad what did you do in the war and you can say not much but let me tell you about the 1924 convention
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When I was in 3rd grade my parents gave me kids' bios of FDR and JFK. The 1924 convention was a highlight of the former.
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Just occurred to me that if Fred Trump was in KKK in 1920s, he was anti-Smith
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