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over that dollar may have been counted in five people's income as a dollar and it becomes five dollars on the income tax returns. As total income for the community it's as good as five dollars. It's the motion of money that matters. We were always explaining that to each other and glad to see these movements of money going on.

So the report was good. Hugh Johnson was taken with all this. So we continued to meet. Every meeting after the first one got less and less interesting. It was with great difficulty that I would get Hugh to come to the meetings. I think I always got him there, until towards the very end. I don't think he suspected that he was being observed and was being looked after, because he had nothing but approbation. Nobody spoke a rough word to him. Members of the committee sometimes asked him questions he couldn't answer, but he always bluffed them off. He just began to feel that the meetings were a waste of time. He couldn't bear to be bothered. Why should he sit there and answer Dan Roper's questions? Dan Roper was a kind of a fuddy-dud in a way, but the questions that he asked were very sensible questions for the Secretary of Commerce to ask. He didn't ask foolish questions, although Hugh Johnson thought they were foolish. He wanted to know about the willingness of various industries to go along with the NRA, the reactions