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that way.

At any rate, so far as I know I don't think I've seen Bridges much since then. During the war he was in Washington on hearings.

I've skipped ahead with this story. Let me return to the Department after the charges against me were dropped. It was in April 1938 that the Strecker case had come up from the court of appeals and we had decided to go through with a writ of certiorari before the Supreme Court. My impeachment was dropped in March 1939. The Supreme Court did not hand down its decision in the Strecker case until June 1939, just before adjournment. The Supreme Court decision, which I don't have at hand, was such that we decided to go ahead with the trial in the Bridges case. We went ahead with it very promptly.

We had had consultations about this before, as to how we should try it, how we should proceed. Our plan for trying it originally was pretty well spoiled by this impeachment proceeding. Houghteling, who was the head of the Immigration Service, and by inference all of the men working for him, and Reilly, who was the Solicitor of the Department, and by inference all of the men working for him, including Shoemaker, whom we had expected would be the man who would hold the hearing in the Bridges