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the political campaign funds in the Bronx. He told me that himself. He thought these Democratic fellows were good.

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., I'll discuss later. He was a kid in these days. He was a problem child to whom I gave his first job, at Uncle Henry Morgenthau's request. He was just a problem child. Nothing suited him. Nothing fitted him. He couldn't get hold of a job. He couldn't cling to education. He was being moved around. He was a problem. He didn't fit. He wasn't agreeable in the family. This was in 1911. I was secretary of the Committee on Safety in 1912 and it was when I was secretary of it that Uncle Henry Morgenthau asked me to take Henry Morgenthau, Jr. on in some kind of a job - any kind of a job. He wanted me to take him around and let him do factory inspections, let him see what life was really like, and kind of encourage him to get hold of something.

I got to know him very well in that way because I took him with me to make inspections. I saw at once that he was easily bored with the inspection. When once you looked at a building and saw the fire escape wouldn't reach the ground, he wanted to go on to the next building, when actually there was a lot more to that building. You had to go in every floor. You had to go into the basement. You had to climb up and look at the water tower. There was a