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Certainly he was capable!) “He's very industrious. I've got a perfect understanding with him and he knows that certain things are going to be done in certain ways. I've made that quite clear. I don't want to remove Witt because he's very useful where he is. He knows everything,” and so forth. Somehow, Nat Witt left the Board in 1939 or 1940 and went into the private practice of law.

By this time I began to lose track of the Board. Edwin Smith's term expired and Mr. Reilly was appointed in Oct. 1941. Reilly, Millis and Leiserson began to fall out with each other. They were very different temperaments. Although I think a great deal of Reilly, I've never been sure that he was just right about his ideas of how the Board should be reorganized.

I know, because he told me so, that he soon came to believe that Millis was old and fussy, that he wasted time, energy and effort, wasted everybody else's time making long, drawn-out, rigmarole opinions about cases that didn't matter, and so forth. On the other hand, both Millis and Leiserson tended to vote together, and Reilly against them.





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