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Henry Ford continued to stay in the nation's headlines by doing nothing at all last week. As a "rugged individualist" he persisted in holding out against "robust collectivism" in the form of the NRA automobile code. He puttered around his northern Michigan camp, gave no inkling of his intentions, sneaked back to Detroit in the rear of a canvas-sided auto trailer. His friends said he was more concerned with his health than with the Blue Eagle. His critics called him a stubborn old codger who had never learned to cooperate with anyone...
...issue thus drawn between President Roosevelt and Mr. Ford seemed to involve much more than just the automobile industry's code. It was the first clean-cut major encounter between the new "robust collectivism" and a prime exponent of the old "rugged individualism." Mr. Ford had supported President Hoover in the campaign. His defiance of the NRA would strike at the heart of the President's recovery program. General Johnson was deeply troubled. He did not want to risk a court fight against the Ford millions. Mr. Ford's higher wage scale than the code...
...criminal lawyers bitterly oppose any legal reforms which might reduce their clients' chances to keep out of prison. Few of these criminal lawyers belong to bar associations. Nevertheless bar association members often become, for other reasons, the crook-defenders' allies in fighting major changes of the criminal code. Where the criminal lawyer is thinking of his bread & butter, his more respectable and conservative colleague is think- ing of the Constitution. Last week the American Bar Association's 56th annual convention at Grand Rapids was thrown into a professional turmoil by a U. S. Assistant Attorney General...
...fishing last week President Roosevelt appointed a Planning & Coordination Committee for the oil industry. It was the last big jig in the Government's design for oil's recovery. Congress had granted the President power to regulate oil shipped in interstate commerce. Oilmen had signed a code. Secretary of Interior Ickes had been named oil administrator. To oilmen most important of all was the P. C. C. Its 15 members would settle the key question of price-fixing. Checking off the appointees last week, oilmen soon saw that at least two-thirds of the P. C. C. frankly...
...fight for free oil prices, it was a bitter defeat. He had seen Sococal, often a maverick in the Standard family, stampede to the price-fixers, drawing Sohio with it. He had seen his $100,000-a-year vice president James Moffett resign to help draft the code. And last week he saw Price-fixer Moffett go on the P. C. C. as one of the NRA's three representatives, saw Presidents Kingsbury of Sococal and Holliday of Sohio go on as representatives of the industry. Only other company committeemen were Presidents Reeser of Barnsdall, Dawes of Pure...