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...President and were given to understand that the Federal Trade Commission might be given power to protect small businessmen, to restore some of the teeth in the anti-trust laws. To be sure, the Trade Commission at General Johnson's invitation sent a man to watch the code making. But nothing happened. So last week, with Congress solidly in session again, Messrs. Borah and Nye went forth to battle on the Senate floor...
...getting hot for the Administration. the President again stepped in, as he did on veterans' pension to make mollifying concessions to Congress. By executive order he directed the Federal Trade Commission to look out for the interests of any small business which appealed to it for help against code-born monopolies, directed that, if the Trade Commission could not help, the case should be passed along to the Department of Justice. In short the Federal Trade Commission was to check and balance...
Modest Ralph Pulitzer's reluctance to become the deputy NRAdministrator of the newspaper code arose from the NRA rule that no one financially interested in an industry should help supervise it for the government. Last week General Johnson swept aside the objections of the late great Joseph Pulitzer's eldest son to taking a Washington job thus...
...Ralph Pulitzer, who left the wilting New York World before his brothers Joseph and Herbert sold it in 1931, had wanted a more substantial reason for refusing General Johnson's call to public duty he could have found it in the fact that no newspaper code yet exists for him to administer. The business of drawing one up began last July. Last week, long after such tougher problems as coal, steel. autos, lumber, had been codified, the news paper code was still on President Roosevelt's desk waiting, ostensibly, for him to find time to sign...
First great rumpus on the newspaper code was over Freedom of the Press. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune last autumn was loudest in his objections to a code which did not redefine the constitutional rights of newspapers to say what they please. Could they, for example, be licensed out of business by a government disgruntled with their views? In December General Johnson stopped trying to reassure newspaper publishers that the code was not meant to be a gag by inserting a specific clause to the effect that the government got no censoring rights...