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...Whereas four months ago any speech by General Johnson, wherever delivered, made headlines throughout the U. S., today his words hardly make local headlines. Blue Eagles, posted up so proudly in shop windows last summer, are now faded and half-forgotten. Because "everybody" is supposed to be under a code, retail consumers no longer consciously pick and choose their stores...
Reasons for this sharp drop in public interest in NRA were plentiful. General Johnson has ceased giving daily dramatic performances in Washington. Normal working hours have softened his temper and his tongue. There are no more tycoons to be battled. The battalions of NRA propagandists have been disbanded. National code-making has almost petered out. Last week it was announced that barber shops, laundries, building managements, restaurants and local transportation would be encouraged to form their regional codes. Biggest NRA project afoot was not the making of codes, but a big meeting in Washington to air code criticisms, suggest revisions...
...were advanced: 1) NRA is legally beaten, a premature claim. For six months the Federal Government has artfully dodged any such ordeal by law. The only immediate test in sight resulted from a decision by a Federal court in Texas exempting local oil producers, not signers of the oil code, from code supervision because they were not engaged in interstate commerce. The oil code is, however, a specialized case which chiefly concerns not General Johnson but Secretary Ickes who last week promised a swift appeal to the Supreme Court. 2) NRA was supposed, by limiting hours of work...
...founded under the buttonwood tree in Wall Street in 1792. No broker ever became President and few much of anything else. But in the last 142 years the members of the Stock Exchange have perfected a method of buying & selling securities which functions with mathematical precision and a code of financial conduct which is the highest in the world. Its 1,375 members, the best-dressed group of men in the U. S., have conferred on their officials absolute and arbitrary powers. The governors of the New York Stock Exchange can do anything they want, and from their decision there...
...What industry is covered by the 288th NRA code...