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Interviewer:

He apparently ran it as you have indicated that he would--he just didn't do anything?

Perkins:

He just didn't do anything.

Interviewer:

Another dope without any corruption, then?

Perkins:

Oh, no corruption and no violence. [Burdoke] was a very violent man.

One of the things I used to say to myself was, “Well now, I never could have gotten away with that. If I had done that, every newspaper in this country would have rocked with it.”

He brought his little dog down to the office every day. It was one of these little Pekinese dogs, little wormy dogs--you know. He brought his little dog to the office every day. He had a little bed made for him in the back office. He took over the back office at once, which I'd always had some body else in. I never took it over, but he took it over as a place to rest, and he used to go and lie down on the sofa in there and rest in the middle of the day, which is all right but I never seemed to be able to. He had his secretary prepare a meal for the little dog. The little dog had to have a very careful diet of liver and various things, and the secretary would feed the little dog at noon. Then the messengers would take the little dog out on a





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