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comes in, they calm right down, because Aunt Susan knows where she's going and what she intends to have. There isn't any of this fluttering like dear, kind, sweet mama who doesn't seem to know what it is she's aiming at, trying to obey all the rules of child guidance and rearing.”

I got this idea of sending a military man out. This whole episode of the Bonus Expeditionary force in Washington was still very strong in my memory. Pelham Glassford was a retired Brigadier General and Police Commissioner of the City of Washington during the Bonus Army Problem. As Police Commissioner he had behaved with what seemed to me, and many others, extraordinary intelligence and competence, showing himself to have a sense of justice, and yet that curious ability for prompt action and a kind of orderly, patterned, completely conventional action that army training gives a man. You don't do anythings new and experimental and imaginative, but you do something very practical and do it quick. Also, the army is trained to think of three or four things at once. They can think of how men live, where they sleep, how they eat, what they eat, how they get it. They can think of what rewards they get for their work and what punishments they get, all at the same time.

He wasn't in Washington then, but somewhere near,