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something, I asked them to do it. I don't know what I would have said if they wouldn't do it. The only time I ever gave McGrady an order was when he was going to leave San Francisco and come home for Christmas in the midst of a strike. I raised the roof over the telephone with him that he must stay there. But in this case when they said, “Are you going to order McGrady to go out?” I said, “No, I'm going to discuss it with Mr. McGrady.”

“Oh, I thought you wired them that McGrady would come.”

“Well,” I said, “I haven't any doubt that he will come, but he'll go voluntarily. I'm not ordering him to go to Toledo. After all, he's the Assistant Secretary.”

“Well, why do you send the Assistant Secretary? Why don't you go yourself?”

Newspaper people are dumb. They'll take anything you give them. You hand them kind of a juicy phrase, they'll take it, use it over and again, and that become the fact. I said, “I couldn't do better by Toledo. McGrady is our ace conciliator.” I made the phrase up right then - “our ace conciliator.” He was the poorest kind of conciliator. He wasn't a conciliator at all, but I had to give him a front. I had to give him a tag so that he would be welcome in Toledo. When McGrady dies and you read his obituary in