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Davis, a New York patent lawyer. He had come into the NRA at my request. When Johnson got into trouble and said he had to have a compliance system, he turned to me to find somebody to be the head of compliance. He wanted Altmeyer because Arthur Altmeyer had been in charge of factory inspection and labor law enforcement in the State of Wisconsin and had made to Johnson a great many practical suggestions about enforcement. He knew how you enforced labor law. Arthur and I were the only people in the government who knew anything about the enforcement of labor law. I couldn't let Altmeyer go. I needed him too much for the development of the Social Security System.

So I had said, “I'll find you a better person.” I found William H. Davis. He never had heard of William H. Davis, although William H. Davis told me later that Hugh did know him. He found out from Baruch, Hancock and others that Davis was a great patent lawyer and so he had immediately great respect for him. He said, “All right, see if you can get him.”

So I called Davis who was out on his ranch in Montana, or one of those states. I had a terrible trek to get him because they were miles and miles off the beaten track. I finally got him to drive the seventeen miles to a telephone and put this up to him. He was a personal