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the day was over by Ruby Black, who was a very well-known newspaper woman around Washington. I'm pretty sure it's correct because I heard it from other quarters later.

She came rushing down to the Department to tell me that I had made a great success. In fact, the press had liked it. They thought it was a good show that I had put on. I had known the answers. When I was questioned about the dollar a day, I had known how to handle it. I had had a great number of examples that I could use in telling them about people on relief, or people who were not on relief, but in need. I jazzed it up well. The press was very onthusiastic, or so she said, and I gathered from other things that I heard that they thought it was good. She also said that the members of the committee were very satisfied. They thought I had done very well. The hearing ended in a kind of a glow. I remember that. I was conscious of the fact that I had done well at this moment.

“But,” said Ruby, “do you know what happened? Congressman 'So-and -So' (I forget who he was now) went right from the hearing to the Democratic cloakroom (which is natural). There many of the other Democratic Congressmen were sitting around - Democrats or Republicans - smoking their cigars. They said, 'Well, you've been up to the hearing, have you? Did the new Secretary of Labor testify?'