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do with his lunch inside that tin box. He accepted that situation.

They often talk about a new broom coming in and cleaning house when a new administration comes in. We literally had to clean house in the good old-fashioned meaning of the word housecleaning, we actually had to sweep, clean and get rid of cockroaches before we could do much of any important work. It was very extraordinary - most extraordinary now that I think of it.

That afternoon was busy with just a lot of small things of that sort. When I arrived the Chief Clerk came in and told me that that evening there was to be the annual ball and reception of the Department of Labor, which I, of course, had never heard about. It seems that it had been the custom of the employees' association of the Department of Labor to have a ball and reception on the 4th of March, which was the anniversary of the setting-up and establishing of the Department of Labor. They had chosen that date to have their ball once a year. People bought tickets to it and the money that was raised that way was used not only to defray the expenses of the ball, but to put a little money in the employees' welfare fund which they had under the charge of a committee for the use when people got sick, or when there was death in the family. The employees' welfare association would do something about it.