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the Immigration Service. Secretary Doak put so many butinskeys in there that Husband can hardly function at all. He'd divided it all up and secretly appointed somebody to be in charge of something and somebody else to be in charge of something else.”
I said, “Well, I noticed this morning that seven people said they were in charge of immigration.”
He said, “That's just it. Doak puts them in charge of special branches and Husband doesn't even know they've been put in charge of it. They refuse to report to him and they don't report to him. God knows who they do report to. They supposedly report to the Secretary. That whole thing is in a very bad condition. Nobody knows what's going on. Nobody can ever find out what's going on. It's very irregular. I don't even like to think what's going on there.”
Then we talked about the children's Bureau and the women's Bureau. He said, “They go all right. Both of those girls are sensible girls. They haven't got any money to spend anyhow. They tend to business. We never see them. Doak never saw them and I never see them. If I ask for a report, they give mea report and it's all right. I can make it out.”
I then asked him about Kerwin's outfit which was called the United States Conciliation Service. I said, “Just how does that opoerate?”
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