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something else into the works so that if they should agree to that formula, I wouldn't be able to say that he had agreed to it. He thought up a variation on it, but the meaning was the same.

He wrote this out one Sunday morning. I had called him up the day before and said I wanted to see him. We had made an engagement to see him in his office in the Chrysler Building in New York. I was in New York that day. I went to church early that day and met him around noon. The usual battery of doormen, clerks and secretaries wasn't there. There were only a couple of secretaries working around in the outer office. So instead of seeing Chrysler in the big conference room, where I'd seen him before, the secretary motioned me to go right into Mr. Chrysler's private office.

I suppose that office is all dismantled now, but it was a fascinating display of the man. It had very elaborate and expensive panelling of the finest Circassian walnut. The walls were lined with sunken cabinets, covered with glass, and they were all lighted interiorly. In those he had his collection of early American penny banks. He was a great collector of penny banks. Some of them were pottery, but more of them of the cast iron type. There were a great many made at one time, around