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Ordeal by Dinner
V, O. G. | January 17, 1920 issue

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That is what it was, the dinner given on January 8 by the National Democratic Committee to its distinguished guests and all who were willing to pay six dollars to see the candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination disport themselves. It was a two-ring circus, but the rings were in separate buildings, fortunately enough. What would have happened to the listeners if it had occurred to the committee to let two men speak at once at different ends of the room, it is hard to say. Survival was difficult enough as it was.

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DINNERS & dining; ORDEAL; PRESIDENTIAL candidates; RINGS (Gymnastics); SURVIVAL behavior; CRIMINAL procedure
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