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Casson, owned the Callaway Mills. He was always super, super friendly to the President outwardly and actually wasn't so loyal behind his back. He was the man who invented this idea of the four cent markup on every process of the manufacture. He was that kind of a fellow, but that was not the case of this nice man at Avondale. He was a really good man.

So I asked Wharton and Hillman to come out to lunch and meet this man. Well, they spent all the afternoon with him. I finally had to go and leave them in my drawing room. Hillman and Wharton comported themselves with the greatest of diplomacy. I remember being very pleased. I had warned my friend from Avondale that Hillman spoke with a very acute accent and I'd warned him not to be offended by that, as I knew he would be. He came from that part of the South where they don't like foreigners. They don't like Russian and Polish Jews who can't speak English. I showed him some things that Hillman had written and assured them that he understood English and spoke English well, but that, being born in the part of Russia where he was, he was endowed with this peculiar thick accent and had never been able to overcome it. Although he thought quickly and spoke quickly in English, his accent might be offensive. I “Mr. Avondale” not to be offended