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him more recently in the papers as representing the Republican committee of that district. But he turned us down. He wouldn't do it.

I got the help of Harold Stephens in selecting some of these people. I got recommendations from him. We had a very hard time getting the Board together, but we finally got it, and we finally released the names, and they met. We took some quarters over in the Apex Building for them to work in. That building is at the Apex, in Washington, D.C., that point towards the Capital where Pennsylvania Avenue divides from Constitution Avenue. The quarters were very adequate, and they proceeded to work. That was that. That was all there was to it.

Then they anguished over the cases. We met with them. The Civil Service Commission met with them for their formation meeting. We met with them frequently;whenever they had a general meeting, we always met with them. But they soon broke up their work into panels, you see. This panel would sit for so many days or weeks, and then they would go back home and tend to their own business, and then another panel would sit for a number of weeks.

They had a lot of cases come before them, and they ate them up without too much distress, I think. This is now '48, '49, '50.