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He said, “Well, they're not what I call readers. They like to listen to music. Of course, they have the chance. They can tune in if they want to.”

I said, “But why is it that the masters of the ships, the companies, some high officers of the navy, are under this impression?”

“Well,” he said, “there's a general movement to cheat the radio operators. The communications industry is regarded as an outcast by the rest of the seagoing personnel. They stand in a terrible position. They're in between the seagoing personnel and the officers of the ship. They're always jealous.”

He was very sweet. He couldn't have been sweeter. He told me how lovely everybody had been to him. He told me another thing, which I never have tested as to its truth. He told me that Mrs. Roosevelt had learned of his sad plight, of the fact that his wife was very ill, was about to have another baby, had two already, and that Mrs. Roosevelt had arranged for his wife to go to some very lovely place in the country in the South to get herself built up and to have her baby there, and that he would never cease to be grateful to Mrs. Roosevelt for all that she had done for him and his family. His mother had been deeply touched





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