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At this time Dr. Rhoads didn't come to many meetings, although he was on the board, but it was on him that I counted on getting good advice about research grants later. With Adair's help, however, and gradually with great fighting, Little and Murphy were finally persuaded to resign from the organization sometime in the fall of '45, as I recall.

On what basis?

Because they couldn't get along with anybody and were totally obstructionist.

The campaign ended in the summer of '45 with four million 292 thousand dollars as the total. Of this, 960 thousand was allocated for the first year for research. For the first time in the history of mankind there was a substantial single fund in the cancer field which was to be used for cancer research. Dr. C. P. Rhoads of Memorial Hospital was asked to make recommendations to the Society for the use of this fund. He was the one whose pamphlet had interested me in the possibilities and in the need for more research funds, as I've told you.

Because of the lack of vision of the doctors within the Society, Rhoads felt that the most strategic thing to do with the research money was to ask the National Research Council of Washington to be the agent and to form a committee on with about 80 members on the committee divided into panels. These panels represented various segments of research interests