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Anyhow, Louis Johnson was very much opposed to my doing away with it. He and a man named Taylor, who had been a general in the First World War, were the ones who started out on a great campaign against me for trying to ruin the Veterans Employment Service. I had a very difficult time with them until it came about that Caroline O'Day had known this General Taylor. Near the close of the war she had opened her house to take in eight or ten officers who had been wounded and were just discharged from surgical hospitals, but not fit to go back into circulation. She had invited them to come to her house under the auspices of the army and Taylor had been one of them. She stayed there and was the hostess and general friend. She had become very good friends with Taylor, as well as with all of them. She was the kind of a woman who, if anybody knew her they were her friend. she was a loyal friend.

When she learned this, she said that she knew Taylor and telephoned to him, saying, “Really, I think you haven't talked with Miss Perkins about this.” She made an introduction, which interested me because it changed the atmosphere immediately between Taylor, Louis Johnson and me. Taylor would come with Johnson, who was still breathing fire against the employment service, but





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