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of BLS had had a fight with President Hoover and had resigned because hen wouldn't agree to the employment figures that the President gave out to the public.

Anyway, that was the whole Department. I waded in and reorganized the Immigration Service, and revamped and revived these other bureaus. I put into effect actually a technical reorganization of the Immigration Service and put naturalization and immigration together. That was the ostensible reason for the reorganization - economy. And it was more economical. You brought them together and they functioned in the same material with the same people. The Naturalization Bureau had defined the papers the Immigration Bureau had provided before a man could be naturalized. So it was natural to put them together.

I got Daniel W. MacCormack to head it. He was Colonel MacCormack. He was a man I knew very well. I had been acquainted with him for a long time. I don't remember anything about his early life and education, but I became acquainted years earlier. He had been down in the Panama Canal Zone as an aide to General George W. Goethals. The digging of the canal was a military operation and he did a very superior job of organizing. When Goethals went down to dig that canal, he made very intelligent plans. He recognized that they would have to bring a lot of skilled workers down from