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happened to be in a place where he got in a jam with them.

While Reilly was with the Labor Relations Board, he became deeply convinced that Witt was a true Communist and that he had picked out a number of true Communists and stuck them in in various places so they would cooperate with him, and that they were still there after Witt left. He managed many others by pulling wool over their eyes and by flattery. That became Reilly's view of it.

The Board members all got out when the Board was reorganized under the Taft-Hartley Act. Reilly went into the private practice of law and has never been in the government since.

Mills almost had a nervous breakdown when he was there. I hadn't known it, but Millis was a great hypochondriac, which doesn't mean that he wasn't also ill. He was getting older. Although he had looked the same age for twenty years - twenty years earlier he looked like an old man, always stooped, had a kind of lugubrious way of speaking, always looked on the black side of everything, which I associated with the vary old and certainly not with those who are in the prime of life - he really began to age a great deal more. When I interviewed him about going on the Labor Relations Board,





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