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cigarettes, but stationery and jewelry and notebooks, all beautifully tooled leather and lined with silk, and silk up and around the sides of the place. Oh, tufted puffy little silk cushions to put behind you, movable cushions. It was much more plushy than anything that's built today. The cars today in 1955 are more expensive, and they're more loud and gaudy, but the old plushiness of the interior development is just gone. They're plain, stark, bare, brilliant-colored things, you see, not all this lovely tufted silk.

Well, this was one of these very tufty ones, very handsome. So I got in, and I said to Mrs. Lewis, “This is a very handsome car, Mrs. Lewis.”

She said, “Yes, John feels that he should have the best. As the head of the United Mine workers, he feels he should have the best.”

That was a feeling that was very evident in his mind-- He once explained it to me. Oh, he didn't explain the car, but he explained his feeling that a labor leader must live better than the people he deals with, better than the employers who sit opposite him. He must ride around in a more handsome car. He must entertain on a more lavish scale. He must live in the most expensive and elaborate hotel. He must have the best





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