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wanted, but she would lay down the law that they would have to comply with the codes, and so on. She was effective, I guess.

At any rate, that's where she began to know anybody, where she began to know an occasional politician. It was a beginning that Miss Robinson provided for her.

By the time the NRA was over she had made herself a factor in the New York NRA. In the liquidation of the NRA which had to take place in an orderly style after the Schechter decision she stuck by, whereas the man who had been Number 3 man and was now the head of it got out. He got out right away because he had a job he wanted to go to. Mrs. Hosenberg stood by to preside over the liquidation of the New York office of the NRA. It took about six or eight months to liquidate from the central office in Washington. It was a long time before it was liquidated, because there ware obligations outstanding, reports to be written, final things recorded and filed in the archives - all that sort of thing.

During that period she managed to impress somebody - I don't know just who - with the idea that she ought to be taken care of, that she was one of the people in the NRA who ought to be taken care of in one of the expanding





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