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being done. That was a rule we had. We had to appoint ten or twenty stenographers. Someone would bring her in a list. She'd look them over, see in general where they were or where they lived. Then she would call up or I would call up Mr. Curry or the leader in the community where they lived and say, “I wonder if you would have any objection to Ann Jones of the Bronx being appointed as a stenographer. She's on the list. She lives in the Bronx. We don't know anything about her.” If it wasn't Ann Jones, it was Ann O'Brien. The chances were a hundred-to-one she'd be a Democrat and was number one or two on the list. There'd be no trouble at all. They'd call right back and say, “That's fine. She'd be a good appointment.” I don't think they knew her or even looked her up. I'm sure they didn't, but prestige was what did it. We got the same people we would have gotten otherwise, but made them feel they weren't completely ignored. That made them nice about other things. When I had to say, “Mr. Curry, I couldn't do that,” I would say, “Remember those three stenographers I appointed for you last May - three votes, three families.” They were on the whole reasonable.

There was another thing that I did that was very good. It wasn't only good politically, but it brought me some first-class people, which I badly needed, as Referees in