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Philadelphis attorney, both served brief terms as chairman of the Board. In the autumn of 1935 Warren Madden, dean of the University of Pittsburgh Law School, became chairman after much canvassing and many refusals.

That's all I say about that in this book. I think my editors probably cut it down to one paragraph, because I'm sure there was page after page after page about it when I wrote it. The job of my editor, who did a beautiful job, was to reduce. As a good editor he compressed into a brief paragraph like that a lot of material which seemed important to me, but which he thought the general public wouldn't be interested in. I think he was correct.

Anyway, the getting of Madden to serve was a great asset. The bill was passed in June 1935. Biddle had been serving up until the time the bill was passed. In the meantime I was continuing to canvass for people.

So I got Madden.

Then I started in to find the other people. I want to describe this business, because in the light of what happened afterwards it's important to know how these other two people got appointed.

The second person we decided on was Edwin S. Smith, now discredited in 1953. Recently within the last few





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