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1 Corporation? Page 1072 2 A Well, except there was a CEO who was the top 3 boss, the chief executive. 4 Q You were the president? 5 A Yes. 6 Q And you reported to the CEO who was the 7 number one man? 8 A Right. 9 Q But you were the president of the company? 10 A Right. 11 BY MR. McGOWAN: 12 Q Mr. Thomas, in the 1940s did you know a man 13 named Ed Ames? 14 A Yes . 15 Q What was his job? 16 A He was kind of the promotional guy and do- 17 gooder and had a number of jobs, and I think he 18 started out having been a schoolteacher, as I 19 remember , still a little schoolteacher-ish. and in a 20 business -like, that you got a lot of people that come 21 in for one reason or another.