cowboy. She also studied cryptology, eventually becoming chief of the code operation for the War Department’s Southern Division, based in San Antonio. “This is a man’s size job,” she wrote to her mother-in-law, “but I seem to be getting away with it, and I am going to see it through. . . . I am getting a great deal out of it, discipline, concentration (for it takes concentration, and a lot of it, to do this work, with machines pounding away on every side of you and two or three men talking at once).” Parker supported Genevieve and was proud of her: “Good work, old girl,” he wrote to her in one
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