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always thought it would.

Paul Kennedy was the director of the American Association for Labor Legislation. He was a very considerable person. He was a Princeton graduate, very distinguished looking, very tall, wore a pointed beard which was a certain affectation. He also wore spats. You could do things like that in those days and not be laughed at. Nobody laughed at Paul Kennedy. He was a gentleman and a scholar, and he was interested in improving the condition of labor. No one ever thought of him for a moment as a labor man. He had an academic approach. I thought a great deal of him. He was a great friend of mine. He had a great deal of insight. He understood these labor matters very well indeed. He never was rebuffed by the way they treated him. They didn't always treat him right.

It was Paul Kennedy who persuaded Mitchel and Henry Bruere to start the Hotel de Gink. Paul Kennedy would go down with his spats, his overcoat with cape on it, his pointed beard, his pince nez, looking as elegant as they make them, and go right out among the unemployed and talk with them. They never rebuffed him, because he was really sincere





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