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York, and got back to Washington. I had a governess for Susanna. I always had had one. I kept my home in new York. You couldn't disrupt that home over night. Susanna was in school and you can't interrupt a child's school. I always had had a governess for her, so I had a good one. You can't leave a child alone. That was all right, and I expected to go back and forth on Sundays a good deal.

Getting back to the Department, there was really no pressure for patronage. I don't know why, but there wasn't. There wasn't any one me, at least. I don't know whether Jim Farley had given attention to the questions of patronage or not. Mary Dewson had some very definite views about patronage. She had been the head of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee and she had tow or three people picked out for whom she was determined to get jobs. Only one of them was in my department. I think. She was very keen to have Grace Abbott and Mary Anderson retained, but we all wanted that. There was no pressure on that.

She wanted me to appoint a lady, whose name I now forget, as District Commissioner of the Port of Seattle, which was a port of entry for immigration. She told me about a good many of the people she wanted appointed, whether they were in my Department, or not. She was pressing very