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Briefly I will state that the British Ambassador came before breakfast on the
eighth, and my letter to the President covers his visit quite fully. He has pro-
mised to come again soon.
Yesterday, the Governor sent his secretary to see me. There were several
things he desired me to arrange for him. I was surprised to find they did not
place much value on the endorsement of the City Administration. I soon put them
right in this with the result that Stanley Quinn telephoned the Governor and ask-
ed him to set a time on Tuesday to see me with the Mayor and Frank Polk. I named
5.30 which I later found was agreeable to the Mayor, who was delighted with the
manner in which the matter had been handled.
McCombs called yesterday and I spent an unhappy hour with him. I was in
no mood to temporize with him and would have been willing to have a first class
row. The more aggressive I became, however, the less so he was. It ended in
the usual way by his asking me to help him get what he <sic>termsed</sic> "recognition"
from Washington.
He is so thoroughly selfish and disloyal to the President, and is so jeal-
ous of me that it is a wonder I have any patience left with him. He now remem-
bers a lot of things that never happened, and it took some time and determination
to set him right. I even had to go so far as to say that if anyone denied the
statement I was making, they lied, and he had my permission to bring them to see
me in order that I might <del/> tell them so.
I had an interesting time last night. Mr. S. R. Bertron invited me
to dine and go to the theater. The other guests were Mr. Wiggin, President of
the Clearing House Association, and Mr. Frank Sayles of Providence. My letter
to the President gives details.
I have a letter from Bertron this evening saying the Committee would meet
with me at the Metropolitan Club on Tuesday evening.
| Title | ms_0466_s2_v2_191 |
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Briefly I will state that the British Ambassador came before breakfast on the
eighth, and my letter to the President covers his visit quite fully. He has pro-
mised to come again soon.
Yesterday, the Governor sent his secretary to see me. There were several
things he desired me to arrange for him. I was surprised to find they did not
place much value on the endorsement of the City Administration. I soon put them
right in this with the result that Stanley Quinn telephoned the Governor and ask-
ed him to set a time on Tuesday to see me with the Mayor and Frank Polk. I named
5.30 which I later found was agreeable to the Mayor, who was delighted with the
manner in which the matter had been handled.
McCombs called yesterday and I spent an unhappy hour with him. I was in
no mood to temporize with him and would have been willing to have a first class
row. The more aggressive I became, however, the less so he was. It ended in
the usual way by his asking me to help him get what he |
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