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to say this now, but probably one of the reasons why I got such terrible doses of this kind of accusation and public reporting of it was that I didn't have good publicity as it is known as an art and a science. Fitzgerald was the Public Relations Officer. He was an old newspaper man. He had applied for the job. He was well recommended. He had worked on the New York World. He had worked for the state and national Democratic committees. As a matter of fact, I had known him when radio first came into fashion as a political instrument. During one of the gubernatorial campaigns he had rigged up some radio speeches and radio interviews for some of us. I was among the people whom he had put on the radio to speak about the Governor's campaign. So I had met him. When he asked for the job, I thought well of it. He was a mature man and I thought it would be a good thing.

But he proved to be one of these men who, I'm sure, was a good newspaper man in a newspaper of fice, but had complete scorn for the modern technique of publicity. He thought it was ridiculous. He hated a press agent just the way an old copywriter hates press agents. He just didn't like press agents. He had the greatest scorn for all the people around the city who