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the clothing they were doing. We wove the fabrics for the home of Mrs. Louise Dillingham which is so well known in Hawaii and for Jesse Jones' bank in Houston. For the latter, we created long, shimmering copper-colored curtains and called them "Pretty Penny." The name was appropriate in more ways than one.

Mr. Jones had been the head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in President Roosevelt't First administration.  He remained an important national figure especially in finance. So I am inclined to believe a story they told me about him in Houston. It seems he was talking with a friend about another Texas businessman who had suffered a series of financial reverses. Jones' friend asked if the other man had been completely wiped out. "He's broke, all right," Jones is supposed to have replied, adding, "Oh, he's still got a few holdings here and there around Texas but I don't imagine they amount