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    "ocrText": "PORTON K. WHEELER, MONT., CHAIRMAN\nELLISON D. SMITH, s.c.\nWALLACE H. WHITE, JR., MAINE\nROBERT F. WAGNER, N.Y.\nJAMES J. DAVIS, PA.\nALBEN W. BARKLEY, KY.\nWARREN R. AUSTIN, VT.\nM. M. NEELY, w. VA.\nWILLIAM H. DIETERICH, ILL.\nAUGUSTINE LONERGAN, CONN.\nUnited States Senate\nFRED H. BROWN, N.H.\nHOMER T. BONE, WASH.\nCOMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE\nVIC DONAHEY, OHIO\nSHERMAN MINTON, IND.\nHARRY S. TRUMAN, MO.\nCHARLES O. ANDREWS, FLA.\nEDWIN c. JOHNSON, COLO.\nHARRY H. SCHWARTZ, WYO.\nWashington, D. C.\nLISTER HILL, ALA.\nMarch 3, 1939\nHENRIK SHIPSTEAD, MINN.\nM. W. MITCHELL, CLERK\nHonorable Edgar G. Hinde\nPostmaster\nIndependence, Missouri\nDear Edgar:\nAppreciated most highly your letter of the Twenty-seventh,\nand as you know, political friends are all sorts and of all classes.\nMy Hugh Johnson manager in Kansas City is one almost impossible to\nmuzzle, and it is pretty hard to hit a fellow in the mouth when he\nthinks he is doing you a favor. If I could have gotten him appointed\nUnited States Marshal he would probably have spent all his energy\nsticking pins in the Federal Court in Kansas City, and it would have\nmade it a lot easier for all of us, but I am not going to be able to\nget it done.\nOf course, I was highly pleased with the reaction at Joplin,\nand rather think it was better for me not to be there, under the cir-\ncumstances.\nwill be home the week of the Eighteenth, if everything holds\ntogether, for the purpose of addressing the Missouri Legislature at\nJefferson City, which will be the opening gun of the 1940 campaign,\nas far as I am concerned.\nI am glad you liked the air speech, and it is a darn good\nthing you complimented me on it because I was just about to write a\nletter to Howes and tell him what a no-good postmaster I had at\nIndependence, but changed my mind, as you can see by the enclosed\ncopy. This is another case where a fellow has to lie for his politic-\nal friends.\nSay hello to Roger and the rest of the gang.\nHave they put any more County officials in jail? They will\nfind out, after while, that the Presiding Judge of Jackson County is\njust a little bit more than a political job.\nSincerely yours,\nHavy\nHarry S. Trumen\nHST/cb\nEnclosure"
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