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new movement full of enthusiasm and away from the old fuddyduds?” I thought that Nat Witt was just one of those and that he had, like so many of the young men, a theoretical knowledge of government and politics and had emphasized in his own thinking, planning and rule-writing this idea that the National Labor Relations Board was supreme in its own field and didn't have to listen to the policies of the Secretary of Labor or the President of the United States.

In August 1936, John Carmody resigned from the NLRB. This is what I feared he would do - leaving us in the lurch. Once more I must begin my thankless search for someone to serve on the board.

There was one man, however, who wanted the post badly - that was Donald Wakefiled Smith, and he was vigorously recommended by Senator Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania so soon as heard of the vacancy. I had almost forgotten about Donald Wakefield Smith, but I had earlier resisted his appointment as Commissioner General of Immigration earlier in the New Deal, and had even half convinced Senator Guffey that his practice, specializing in immigration and deportation and other appeals, would make him morally ineligible for that post. Postmaster General Farley had stood





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