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have the Chairman of the Senate and the Speaker of the House appoint three members each, and the President appoint five members, at least three of whom should be non-governmental people - experts, leading citizens, persons of good repute. Let them go to work to find out what is the cause of corruption, where it is, and how it can be remedied. I think that's true in a number of areas where we are in confusion as to what we ought to do. We see a thing; we don't know how to correct it or we don't know how bad it is.
This Jacoby Investigating Commission was a brilliant scheme really. It worked beautifully. The truth was brought out and understanding was effected. Mary Dreier was a member of the Woman's Trade Union League, but she was not herself a trade unionist. I mean she was not a working woman. She had the superior advantage of being very, very beautiful, with eyes that would knock you over. She had large China blue eyes set far apart in her head and when she opened them wide to express surprise, it was the most dramatic thing I have ever known, though she was never conscious of being dramatic. If a member of the commission indicated that something that was proposed to remedy a hazard to life was far too expensive and would ruin the real estate business, Mary Dreier would open her eyes in Christian astonishment that
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