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thoroughly drenched. Not a person left. Not a person scurried for cover. Nobody paid the slightest attention to the rain dripping down their faces.

Then we went to lunch. The only thing I remember about that is that we went into the place where the Harvard Corporation was entertaining the distinguished guests at luncheon. Some kind and foresighted hospitality committee had provided a strong hot toddy which was handed to everyone coming in from that academic assembly. We were wet through and it was cold. It was a really cold September rain and there was going to be no chance to change clothes. You had luncheon under cover, to be sure, which we were very grateful for, and then the President and those of us who were with him were to go to the Saunders Theatre where he was to make his great address. Then we were to scatter, after some later reception, to the four winds. I went to Maine from there. I had a car meet me and went right down to Maine that night.

Anyway, the Labor Relations Board vacancy had been filled. Nobody knew who Donald Smith was, but Guffey gave him a good name. Nobody thought there was anything queer about that.





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