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Don't you know somebody who would like to work here part time or full time?” So she bustled around among people she knew and among other people she brought in was Anna Rosenberg. She had been married to Julius Roseberg for a good many years and had a boy around eighteen or nineteen. She had been a stenographer at one time and so went to work for them. She took a salary. She was subordinate to Robbie. She sent off mimeographed copies and all that kind of thing that you have to do in a campaign office. She hadn't worked for a long time and kind of liked going back to it.

When Robbie got this job with General Johnson, Mrs. Rosenberg said to her, “well, I'd like to work in the NRA too.” So Robbie got her a job in the New York office of the NRA. How she rose in the New York office I don't fully know, though I know part of it. The job that Robbie got for her was a subordinate job of some sort, but Mrs. Rosenberg is, and showed herself to be, an extremely smart person. She knows how to get along. She had had no important part in any political movement. The fact that she'd worked for the Democratic National Committee didn't mean she was a Democrat or had anything to do with the Democratic party. she was just hired along with a lot of other people. Robbie hired her because she knew her. She was not known in politics, social work, or anything else. Not even in Jewish society was she known.





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