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of the court. The men of experience, intelligence and probity will be in charge.” But you just don't know. It's a very uncertain thing. I thought to myself, “Passions run high. They're all wrought up about these things. There's no loyalty to the President or the New Deal among the Democrats even.”

There was no uncertainty in my mind about our handling of the Bridges case. I was sure I had done the right thing in the Bridges case. We had proceeded as we would in any other case. This was a cause celebre, of course, because he was an outstanding labor leader, who had just completed a bitter, hard-fought, but successful operation on the Pacific Coast. Bridges, since you ask, never mentioned this to me. I don't know Bridges. There was no reason for him to mention it. Now that I think of it, after his case had been heard, decided and published, and therefore everything was over, he then came into the office one day when he was in Washington on some other business. I don't recall having seen Bridges since the time I've described him as twirling his cap, looking like a poor Clydeside worker, or perhaps a year after that when I examined the hiring hall. By the time his case was through he had become not only a successful labor leader, but the CIO had been formed and he was in the