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Senators, politicians, and people from everywhere about some darn deportation case, or some immigrant that wants to get into the country, or something like that, It's just a land office business that we have to do about immigration.”

I could get nothing about labor out of him. Only that we had a lot of customers, a lot of inquiries, a lot of telephoning about immigration. I didn't go into the details of the whole business.

Finally I saw the staff assembling in the other room. Callus began bobbing into the secretary's room, saying “Mr. White is here. Mr. ‘So-and-So’ is here.” I saw them out in the secretary's outer office. Finally the young stenographer said, “They're mostly here now, Mr. Doak. Shall I ask them to come in?”

So they came in. In came, first of all, a tall, white-haired, be-spectacled, rather ruddy faced man, with one of these faces that's little mixed-up with the features not awfully clear cut, though a very ruddy face, a very strong face, and also an intelligent face. I knew almost immediately that this man would know something - just by looking at him. He looked rather sour. His mouth was tight and severe. He wasn't the affable type, but still I almost immediately decided he would know something, that I would get more information from him than I had been getting from anybody





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