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somewhere that I could reach him by telephone. I telephoned him and asked him if he'd come in. I said I wanted to make a proposition to him to go out and see what he could do about helping us as an agent of the Department of Labor in bringing about some kind of a peaceful settlement of the disturbances among the agricultural workers, which, of course, he'd read about in the newspapers. He said, “All right, ma'am, I'll come right along.” It didn't take him long to get to Washington. He was here by the next morning.

I then realized another things about the military mind and Glassford's mind. They don't give you any chance for a second think. He'd been thinking about it on his way down to Washington and he was prepared to sweep all before him. Anyhow the situation was so bad that, although I realized I wasn't having much of an opportunity to tell him what the job was, and I wasn't being given a chance to have a second thought as to whether I really wanted him, he assumed that if I sent for him, I wanted him. He didn't know anything about these polite preliminary interviews, “will you take the job?” stuff. He assumed that he was under orders. As a military man he was going to sign up for the expedition.

I told him what the situation was. I told him how we couldn't make head or tail out of the wage situation,