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experiences that a lawyer can think of. It does him more good than anything else in his future practice, or so they say. So Wyzanski said to me that he wanted to go, and I agreed, of course, that he could.

My problem was to fill the post, and I was seeing a number of people at his recommendation, or at other people's recommendations. I saw quite a good many lawyers. I wanted the right kind of a man to take his place. Wyzanski had been enormously helpful and successful, with a broad intelligence and excellent judgment, very mature judgment. He was a very young man, but he was born mature. He must have been, because at a very early age, at thirty, he had the judgment of a man of forty-five. He had a mature way of looking at everything. He was extraordinarily well-informed, extraordinarily unbiased, with a knowledge and understanding of the philosophy of the law, as well as detail of the statute and the decisions that had made the statute applicable or inapplicable. So I was looking for a good person and several people knew it.

Josephine Roche called me up. She was then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. She said that she had heard that I had a vacancy in the Solicitor's office. She knew of a very admirable man, very able, very intelligent, very broadminded, very well-posted, and extremely presentable and