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TH: But later on I guess -- then when they had -- number of times I remember that they had special fund drive when they had some kind of big problem come up they needed the money.

DG: Can you think of a situation? What kind of problem?

TH: Like when they had the minimum housing code or some kind of -- they had something -- (Narr. note: minimum housing code was a city ordinance in September, 1962)

DG: Okay. Now, when was that?

TH: Minimum housing code?

ET: We hired a lawyer once for a 135 dollar. Fifteen minutes, was it?

TH: I don't know.

DG: What did he do?

ET: Represent us.

DG: For?

ET: For that minimum housing.

DG: To the city?

ET: I wasn't so sure. Not to the city.

TH: No. Minimum housing code was the city code, but I think you're talking about the time I think we went together with the apartment operators in opposing that, isn't it, or trying to water it down.

ET: This one was strictly Japanese hotel association because we paid all the bill.

TH: That I don't know. I don't remember.

ET: He was a great talker. Boy, he knew how to soften them up.

DG: Tell me what you needed to be softened up.

ET: Well, tell them to not push it right away. Hold the day, the deadline back a bit. If we had to do certain things -- I forgot what we had to do now.

[Interruption]

DG: You had more problems complying with the code.

ET: Yeah.

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