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job. Curiously, I forget whether he took it temporarily, or whether he took it on a long term basis, but I think it was temporary. I think he said he would take it on a temporary basis, that he didn't want to be tied into it, but that he would do it to rescue the Board and to rescue the job that he thought was important. The Board was reconstituted with Harry Millis, Chairman (appointed Nov. 26, 1940), Leiserson (appointed June 1939) and Reilly (appointed Oct. 1941).

Millis was an elderly man from the University of Chicago. He wrote the great thick seven or eight hundred page book on the history of the American labor movement and American labor relations. It's authoritative, correct and uninteresting, but everything you need to know is there. If you have to know something, it's there. The dates are correct. All the things I don't get right Millis has right. If I need to spot a date, I can go look it up in Millis and it will be there all right. And it will be correct.

He was at the University of Chicago. He'd been a professor in this field and he'd been a considerable practitioner as a mediator and arbitrator. I'd used him frequently all through me, “Well, now, I can handle it. Witt is a very capable man, (which I well knew.





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