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They struck in May, but trouble was going on. There were demands being made and committees waiting on the management. Because of the trouble in steel I had been in the position of talking with Ed Stettinius, Myron Taylor, and others, but principally with those two. I had talked to them very privately really about all of the implications of the situation.

Sometime in here, between the terrible day in 1933, when the steel owners and operators wouldn't sit down in the same room with William Green for fear it would be misinterpreted, and this time, steel had picked up and business was better. There had been some reorganization, some re-evaluation, restudying of some problems. At any rate, Edward Stettinius, who had been a member of the Board of Directors, who was a very young man, perhaps the youngest in the organization, a very well educated man, educated at the Harvard Business School, a member of that younger generation that had grown up with wealth and responsibility, who was a very able and a very nice man, as well as a very devout Christian, which I later learned to be the key to his character really, had been made President of U.S. Steel. Myron Taylor had taken the position of Chairman of the Board. I was told that that was a natural shift. Mr. Taylor