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Myron Taylor. I told him several years later. I met Myron Taylor somewhere or other socially, accidentally. We were pleased to see each other and had many things to reminisce about and talk about, with all these troubles over - no steel trouble, no strike in the automobile industry, big union, big contract, competition between Ford, Chrysler and General Motors to see who can give the union the mostest the firstest and so get ahead with the new season's production. Myron by that time had been asked to be the President's envoy. We were just reminiscing and having pleasant conversation. In the course of the conversation I said to him, “Do you ever see Alfred Sloan, Mr. Taylor?”

“Well,” he said, “I don't see him very often.”

I said, “Don't you really? I remember the day that you intervened with him.”

“Well,” he said, “I intervened more than that too. You don't know the degree to which I went on intervention, because you know only of one afternoon when I intervened. As a matter of fact, I intervened again when I understood that negotiations were off for the second time. I intervened again, but since that time I have not seen Alfred Sloan much.” Mr. Taylor, who is a very solemn person, cleared his throat and said, “As a matter





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