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he was not very tall. He was of medium height, a little plump, with dark, very carefully plastered down hair. He had none of this rumpled up, Hugh Frawley, stuff. He wore spectacles with gold temples behind the ears. He then just melts. I don't see any more.

He was a good man, I think, and a nice man. He was well-disposed and I think he probably made a good Governor. At least at the time we thought so. He never did anything bad.

Even Governor John A. Dix sticks out in my memory. I think Dix signed the 54 Hour Law, but against his better judgment. I remember that he said to me - addressing, I'm sure, the person who was with me who was one of the older woman in the Consumers' League and the group that had been working for the 54 Hour Bill - “I don't think this is a good idea. I don't think the bill that you ladies have proposed is a good idea. I think it will put women out of work. I think they'll hire men instead. I think women will lose their jobs. Anyhow, it isn't good for them not to be fully occupied.” He held the theory that if hours were shortened, there would be more time to engage in immoral practises, which such women inevitably go to. “You'd better keep women fully occupied.”

In the year when that bill was passed, not only did