Last week John Barton Payne's 75-year-old legs carried the chairman of the American Red Cross sprily up the Capitol steps and on to the ornate room of the Senate Committee on appropriations. There he sat down in the witness chair, began to tell Senators just what his organization was doing about Drought relief.
Most Senators had known and liked this tall ruddy-faced, square-jawed old gentleman from War days when he had left his Chicago law firm to come to Washington as general counsel for the Shipping Board....
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