It's the Brian Larra Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone.

Hope you had a great 4th of July weekend if you didn't have to work and if you did have to work.

I hope you got lots of tips or time and a half or other compensation and all the love

that you deserve if you're working so that other people can be on vacation. Now there's a

weird convergence this morning between this being a very special day for WNYC and the lead story right now in national politics.

Today, if you haven't heard yet, is WNYC's 100th birthday.

We will have special programming

to celebrate the occasion later in this show,

and with an evening special tonight that

will recreate the first broadcast from July 8th,

1924.

Tonight's thing should be almost too much fun to bear, tune in if you're around.

But the birthday made me curious.

What was in the news on July 8th, 1924?

So I pulled up the front page of that day's New York Times.

And are you ready for this headline

Madu below Smith on 86th ballot. Madu below Smith on 86th ballot. What does that mean? Well the Democratic Party was having an

open convention at Madison Square Garden to nominate their presidential

candidate for the 1924 election and they had gone through 86 ballots so far and no candidate

had yet gotten a majority of the delegates. Wow. The two leaders at that point were those two names, the governor of

New York, Al Smith, and William Madieu, I don't even know if I'm saying the

name right, who had been Treasury Secretary under President Woodrow Wilson.

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