"I say, Dopey, is it true?"
"Sure thing."
"How'd it happen?"
"Don't know."
Gimbel came up with the full news.
"The President gave them a certain time, you remember, to submit a plan of reform. They reported they couldn't agree, so he called the committee together and said:
"'Well, gentlemen, I gave you the opportunity to conform to public sentiment, you haven't been able to do it, you are now abolished.'"
"Who'd have thought it!"
"You don't say so!"
"Abolished!"