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Joseph E. Evans letters, 1935-1954

1942-04-09 Joseph Evans to John Evans Page 1

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3736 12th St., N.E. Washington, D.C. 9 April 1942 Dear Dad - I have just received your letter and am enclosing the keys. The new arrangement sounds very wonderful - Mary and I have worried no little about your predicament and have hoped that some remedy would present itself. Your salesman and his wife sound like a God-send. I had been meaning to write to you anyway, but I have been awfully busy. My job itself is fairly exhausting - I came home every night about ready for bed, but that is simply because I am not sufficiently adjusted to it yet. I like it enormously, and apparently my employers reciprocrate, for not only has the chief of our division praised the articles I have written, but he has also given me something in the way of a promotion already: I am to take over the important tack of handling press relation - that is, supplying Washington newspaper men with the information they want and at the same time trying to keep them happy. Today I attended my first press conference. It is all new to me, and good experience, I think - dealing with people, and all that. The men with whom I work have all been very fine, and the whole set-up seems an admirable one, especially since there is unquestionably the possibility of considerable advancement, and that in a
 
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