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This blast upset Fort Worth's Junior Chamber of Commerce. To celebrate the inauguration of a new streamlined train (Texas Zephyr) this week between Dallas, Fort Worth and Denver, the Junior Chambermen had planned an elaborate ceremony with General Motors' famed vice president, Inventor Charles Kettering, as principal speaker. Mr. Budd and his unrelated namesake, Edward G. Budd, streamlined-train maker, were to be on hand too. Last week the ceremony was abruptly called...
...unpleasantly complicated, two-sided issue-war-troubled the delegates in public and in private (see p. 21). It was so troublous that eventually Chambermen handed the whole question over to the Board for further study, forwent passing any specific resolutions on non-domestic issues. On domestic issues the Chamber knew its mind better...
Between sessions Chambermen gathered by the goldfish pool in the Chamber patio, compared their New Deal-inflicted wounds. One noon some 100 of them played hookey from a Chamber luncheon, paid an adulatory visit to G. 0. P. Candidate Bob Taft. Close to 400 Senators and Representatives also had meals with the Chambermen, who have a new respect for politicians, since Congress has begun to act as a check on the New Deal...
Moreover, though Chambermen attacked New Deal administrative methods, they did not demand complete repeal of New Deal laws. Investment Bankers Association's Emmett F. Connely, after a hot blast against TNEC, suggested "innumerable instances where the administration of the laws as they now stand could be simplified to everyone's benefit without changing the law itself." Henning Prentis said: "Let government amend those laws that are obviously unfair to the businessman in certain particulars, such as the National Labor Relations Act, the Wage and Hour Act, and the two Securities acts." Yale & Towne's President W. Gibson...
...austere, stone cool halls and courtyard of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce headquarters in Washington are reminiscent of the new Supreme Court Building. In them, during the New Deal, some 2,000 Chambermen have assembled annually to exchange sentiments neither judicial nor austere nor cool. Last week, when the Chamber convened for its 28th annual meeting with an attendance less than half of last year's, it was chiefly concerned not with baiting the New Deal but with facing the great reality of the National Labor Relations...