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        "Pendergast, Tom, 1870-1945",
        "Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971",
        "Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959",
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        "Kelly, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1876-1950",
        "Hannegan, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1903-1949",
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    "ocrText": "an organization such as Tammany in New York and Prendegast in\nKaneas City could really awing elections has gone by.\nThe\npeople want to know what the things are for whigh the party\nstands, and they want to be convinced that those. are going to\nbe put through. Mr. Kelly in Chicago has a good organization,\nbut if Mr. Kelly had not played fair with a great many people\nhe would not hold his organization. That holds good of\npractically all of your Democratic Party groups today. So while\ntheye organizations are vitally important to the Party, I think\nyou have to add sonething which has often been neglected, namely,\na progran which meets the needs and wins the approval of the\nrank and file of the voters.\nAt the present tipe, that would include many things\nconcerning veterans, health, social security, education, and\nabove all, the sense that we are moving forvard in our foreign\npolicy to a peaceful world and in our economic policy to a\nrealization of responsibility for ecenonic situations throughout\nthe world which would affect our own in the long run.\nI know, of course, it is rather presumptuous of me to\ntalk to you about the general political situation which you and\nthe others must have considered already, probably in much more\ndetail and with far better powers of observation than I can\npossibly bring to it at the present time.\nThere is one phase of the vhole picture with which\nI\nthink I an more faniliar and more closely connected than many\nof the people whom you know well, namely, the situation of the\nwomen who are not the regular party workers, but who are the\nwomen you have to have with you to win in campaigne. Many of\nthen are feeling that while Niss Perkins was not particularly\npopular during the last few years as Secretary of Labor, still\nshe was a woman in the Gabinet. There will be no woman in\nthe Cabinet and there has been no suggestion so far of any voman\nor women in comparably important positions. Most of the women\nwhom you have to have with you to win elections, do not expect\npositions, but they like to feel that sone women are in the\npolicy making positions and I think that they must feel that\nthis is not just for a brief time but permanently.\nI know many men are made a little uncomfortable by\nhaving women in these positions, but I think the time has come\nto face the fact that you have to win as many vomen's votes as\nyou do men's votes and that the Denocratic Party probably has\nmore strength among women if it stands as the liberal party\nand the party of human rights than it has among the men."
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