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how to put two together. He'd come through.

He was also very much interested in the NRA, although he thought it was a king of crazy idea. He wasn't the only one who thought it was a kind of crazy idea. I don't think that's anything to his discredit. As a business man he saw its hazards, at the same time that it might be doing some good for business men.

He was very helpful in helping Dan Roper, who didn't have a very wide acquaintance, get together a business advisory committee in the Department of Commerce. Jones was always ready to pitch in and help out. I don't think that he ever recommended anybody whom I would regard as a low-grade, scheming, cheap John who was trying to make something for himself out of it. At least, I never saw him do that. Certainly the people that he helped get for Dan Roper's committee were the superior type of business men. They might not have been great liberal “give-it-away” men, but they were superior business minds. They were not engaged it any trick of cheating the government.

Jones, of course, didn't belong to the eleemosynary school of thought in the New Deal, and I don't know why he should have. Why should a man of his age belong to that? He looked like an old man then. I should have





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