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which is, I suppose, the furthest south of what any woman ever said about any other woman - the most loathesome attack on me, and comic attack, making fun of everything I did and said. If I was polite to them, she said I grimaced at them. It was that sort of thing. We now have learned that that is Commie language, that large language that we weren't too familiar with in that day.

I've always been proud of Turner and a few others who held out with me that day, because they couldn't make head or tail of it, and neither could I. But we stuck it out. That was our first contact with the Commies here in Washington, and that was a self-originating group by the Daily Worker that propelled itself down to Washington. It was an organized group. Individually they knew nothing about what they were doing. It was organized and financed by somebody else. We had other incidents somewhat like this. From time to time we had other things happen that were rather peculiar, and I began to find the word “Communist” running through my mind.

During the NRA days a group of automobile workers came uninvited and unorganized - that is, unorganized in a way that anybody could recognize - to Washington to see General Johnson. They wanted to demand a code





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