Bill, in all those controversies surrounding that question, where did the medical profession stand?
WG: They stood aside. They ultimately would come along with Dargavel because the National Association of Retail Druggists was a powerful lobbying influence. They had druggists, and they were drugstore owners. And so they had stores in all districts of the United States. They had access to people who knew these congressmen. As a matter of fact, you could know pretty quick what was going on, because one of the members of the House committee would say, “Well, now, I just got word from my district that so-and-so . . .” We’d have to go and answer that. That’s where I got well acquainted with the members of the committee, of answering those things. But in the final analysis, NARD and Food and Drug worked together on that legislation. Even though it wasn’t what Dargavel wanted, it wasn’t completely what we wanted, but we got basically what we wanted. Oleomargarine-Factory Inspection Amendment The next legislation I was concerned with was oleomargarine, that is, the proposal to repeal the tax
