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injured. All kinds of things happened to him. He lived, but that was about all. We tried to hold that that was in the course of his usual employment for Gimbel Brothers and that his claim was against Gimbel's. But the court ruled, and the Supreme Court held, that that was a maritime case. That little row boat was what had to be sued. The owner of that little row boat proved to be a couple of dock workers who worked on the shore. There was no money back of the ownership of that ship. The little ship didn't have anything.

But the principle they were trying to establish - people working around the water were never attached to the land. They were always under maritime law. In the Mahti Latti case the case came to the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Dimmock came down to argue it. The man that argued the case for us was an Assistant Attorney General and he was awful. He just didn't know anything. I was terribly alarmed. I tried to get the case into his head, but I couldn't. I finally asked the Attorney General if he would appoint a Special Attorney General to argue this case as it was very important. He said, “Who have you got in mind?”

I said, “I've got Henry L. Stimson in mind.”

“Oh,” he said, “If Henry Stimson will take this case, yes indeed, I will appoint him a Special Attorney General.”