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acquired the idea that you shouldn't mention your aches and pains no matter how old you are, or how bad the aches are. They thought it was perfectly all right to speak about their aches and pains.

So I really found myself feeling very uneasy about him because he was so hypochondriac and because he was so emotional. He got very wrought up over everything that happened in the Board. If anybody opposed him, if Reilly wrote an opinion in which he said he didn't agree with Millis, then Millis almost had a nervous breakdown over this. Millis would come and see me fairly trembling. Reilly was young, and that of course was another great grievance. Reilly wasn't a child. He was over thirty-five and near forty, so he was not a child, but he was a great deal younger than Millis. So Millis could hardly bring himself to accept him.

It was a terrible stormy period. I feel rather terrible about saying all this, because the Millises were apparently both ill. Mrs. Millis died before they left Washington, I think, or at any rate was very ill with a bad heart. Millis went back to Chicago and he lived only another year or so. So they were both breaking up apparently. But it did contribute to the emotional strain that he was under,





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