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a face with an aquiline nose, dark eyes, and a rather small sharp mustachio. When he walked through the halls, he might have looked perhaps a little fierce. Really I hadn't been on the Board two days before I realized that he had a very considerable wit. Just a little bit of a sally on my part brought back an immediate cap that was good.

Our friendship was established from the moment that we met. He saw funny things in everything that happened in life. So much so that we finally had to decide - I took it up with him and he agreed with me - that we must not tell jokes, laugh and make little sallies at each other when the public was around. The public doesn't like its public officials to joke or laugh. It's a very serious matter. You tend to business. I remember saying to him, “You and I have a great temptation because we see such funny things. I can hardly bear not to tell it to you or you to me. I'm sure they don't like it. It isn't right for us to do it because it hurts them.” I never had realized it before, but they just feel that you're not paying attention to their case, although you might be. I realized how offensive that is.

However, he was very witty and we became very, very good friends. He died at the age of ninety-seven or so only about two years ago (1950). We were great friends.