This was in August. The convention was still almost a year away, but in our business we work a long time ahead. Many a headline in a newspaper, even though it lasts perhaps for a single edition and then may be forgotten by the reader, is the result of long, tedious, meticulous work. Many sources have to be developed. Many friends have to be made.
Much information has to be pieced together.
I usually meet them in a bank, or in the civil courts. We arranged to meet. We talked for a long time. As I suspected, Ed Moore knew the whole background of the coming struggle between McAdoo and Smith. What's going to make it even worse is the undertone of religious conflict that will run through it.