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College. She had just retired, and she was a sister of Senator Glass, and she was a distinguished Southern gentle-woman, but she was as shrewd as you make them. I'd known her for years, and she was shrewd and able and intelligent and saw right through everything, and a very good worker.

The most effective man we had, or who turned out to be later, wasn't so impressive when I interviewed him. He was a man who had been a Congressman from Ohio and had also been President of a College before he was a Congressman. His name was Burton . He carried a bigger load and did more work and had more beans about him than anybody else. He had great common sense and a great respect for his duty, and had great influence in Congress if necessary. But he didn't use it. He didn't have any perticular political hunches.

The Board was very good, I thought. Eventuelly we got Harry Commery, who had been the President of the American Legion. He came from Montana also, and Mr. Harry Mitchell knew him well. He was a good scout. I mean, he was the sort of hearty westerner who really meant to do the right thing and had a sort of general liberal attitude. We tried to get some people from the West Coast. Most of them turned me down from the Northwest Coast, I remember, around Seattle. I can't think what the man's name ism now, but I have seen