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That had been an interim job that I had enjoyed very much. It had been under the sponsorship and partial financial support of the Merchant's Association, in which we did a lot of work with immigrant people, attempting to bring about a concrete study of English, and translating Americanization into practical terms of getting the people who were still immigrants and newcomers into the patterns of American life that were useful and helpful to them, and making it possible for them to understand them. We tried to involve them in the community life in constructive and good ways. I had worked on committees with Husband then. I had been down to see him and had had him come up for meetings and so forth.
I liked him very much. He was a very good and humane man who had a good reputation with the YWCA which had a project in the aid of immigrants. They even had a project which went overseas and searched for the families of immigrants. It was quite a good project. Husband had served on that and had worked with them on that. So, of course, I greeted Mr. Husband very warmly.
Then there came up a succession of people who were introduced. While I was greeting Mr. Husband, the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor who was in charge of immigration, as an old acquaintance, other people began to come up. Mr. Doak introduced several of them. There was Huge
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