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through anything that was quite so disagreeable, or gave me so many personal problems of personal department, personal controls, and so forth. Of course, I had to remember very often my grandmother's dicta that all are to act as though nothing had happened. I may say that it saved me. I'm sure it saved me. It saved my morale. It saved my rationality. It saved me from spitting and clawing, figurately, at people. It saved me from answering back in a sputtery way that would have made me look silly and cheap. It kept me going toward what I regarded as my duty and my principal objective to do my job and do my duty, acting as though nothing had happened. I had to keep my engagements, go and make a speech wherever I was invited to speak, even though I knew I would be asked impertinent questions by the press of the locality and from the floor of the meeting where I addressed them. But I had to steel myself and school myself to answer those questions politely, courteously and truthfully, without showing any distress.

I may say that it is quite a job to teach yourself to take nicely questions that are very vulgar, such as, “I should like to have you tell me is Harry Bridges a personal friend of yours?” Or “Are you married to Harry Bridges?” To take them from the floor of a meeting which