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...Business was assembled in Washington last week for its first grand audit of the New Deal. From the length & breadth of the land went 1,400 businessmen for the 22nd annual meeting of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Behind the Chambermen and their fellow capitalists lay a year of solid recovery. In 1933 they had assembled with their hearts in their throats and despair in their hearts. Last week their hearts were almost back to normal. President Henry Ingraham Harriman keynoted on "American Progress under American Methods...
...methods were disputable and the Chambermen proceeded to dispute them during their four-day session. Hottest topics: Should the New Deal's policies and practices be made permanent and if so in what form...
...plans for regulating industry and agriculture as far back as 1931. What the Chamber had not originated were such checks & balances as the labor section of NIRA or the Government's power to impose codes on an unwilling industry. Wolf. Last year President Roosevelt went before the fearful Chambermen in person to explain his ideas of a partnership between Government and Business. The Chamber promptly plumped for self-regulation under the Government's watchful eye, but few of the delegates foresaw how close and intimate that partnership was to be. Yet if U. S. businessmen had occasionally found...
...Satisfied?" On NRA there was grumbling galore but the Chamber never doubted for a moment that in one form or another it was here to stay. General Johnson, who made no thundering defense before the assembled Chambermen, was not so sanguine. At a dinner of trade association executives he announced plans for a nation-wide drive within a month or two to whip up flagging interest in the new "code eagle." "Due to a lapse of public enthusiasm," said the General, a drive was imperative. "If you can't get public support, you just can't make...
Resolutions. Before the Chambermen return to their homes after each annual meeting, they pass a series of resolutions which are supposed to be the planks in the U. S. Business platform. Last week they solemnly declared...