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...phrasemaker. He had to be handy with the tools of propaganda. He had to have the ruthless drive of a Cromwell and the tact of a Disraeli In 2,000 A D. there will still be alive hundreds & hundreds of octogenarians to whom the words "chiselers," "codes " crackdown" and "Blue Eagle" will have an historic association. And to them the Man of the Year of 1933 will be National Recovery Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson. The year was more than one third gone before Man of the Year Johnson burst like a flaming meteorite on the country...
...from feeling grouchy toward NRA last week, many a U. S. business found new happiness in code life. Thus, the silk hosierymen notified Washington that their enforced 40-hr. week was piling up an unsold surplus. Right back came an order which, recognizing the industry's seasonal slump, stipulated that silk stockings were to be made throughout the nation only on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The automotive industry, whose code expires Dec. 31, requested that it be extended to Sept. 1, 1934. Well pleased with NRA was the Synagogue Council of America, which voted the Administration thanks...
...Samuel Goldwyn). When Eddie Cantor was a singing waiter in a Coney Island beer parlor, his comedy routine consisted of a song or two and a few jokes, original or stolen. Now that he is the highest-paid funnyman in the U. S. and a member of the Cinema Code Authority with President Emeritus Lowell of Harvard, his performances require such elaborate preparations that he can appear in only one a year. William Anthony McGuire, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood, George Oppenheimer, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and Cantor himself collaborated on story or dialog for Roman Scandals. Several thousand showgirls...
Almost as excited as their employers over an NRA code, newspaper workers have been busy forming local guilds since last August. Last week delegates from 30 guilds, proxies from 43 more, met in Washington to draw up a constitution and elect officers for the American Newspaper Guild...
Friends of Dr. Lindsay Rogers, who has been struggling with the code for five months, well knew that the deputy NRAdministrator hoped that Guild delegates would not create further friction with publishers by making Heywood Broun, pinko Scripps-Howard columnist, their first president. But after a National Press Club luncheon at which General Johnson assured them that the Government would protect them from discharge for joining the Guild, the delegates promptly elected Broun. Other officers: Lloyd White (Cleveland Press), Andrew McClean Parker (Philadelphia Record), Edward D. Burks (Tulsa World), R. S. Gilfillan (Minneapolis Tribune), A. Judson Evans (Richmond Times-Dispatch...