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This philosophy, carried to his specific conclusions, several of which highlight the Message, necessitate careful, intelligent consideration. Most striking of all are his suggestions regarding the NRA and "judicial interpretation." It is, as he asserts, a fact that many of the problems of the NRA, such as unfair trade practices, monoply abuses, child labor, and the like are very much with us; further that they require federal legislation supplementing that of the states. The question is not and never was largely that of the ends in view, but more of the methods of application...
...Franklin Roosevelt last week came a rare pleasure. The Supreme Court has long seemed bent on limiting his authority, denying him powers which Congress was glad to yield. NRA and the Oil Code were both adjudged unconstitutional delegations of legislative power to the Executive. Last week the Court, sounding not unlike a Psalmist lauding the Almighty, proclaimed the President's supreme might & majesty in a "vast external realm...
...budget (Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve)-got immediate answers. But Franklin Roosevelt, having waved aside for a whole month matters of second-term policy, gave no sign that he was ready promptly on return to give cues on such major projects as reviving the substance of NRA, or undertaking new adventures in foreign policy...
...Council for Industrial Progress, called by President Roosevelt's Coordinator for Industrial cooperation, met in Washington with not a single top-notch business leader in attendance. Prime reason for Big Business' boycott of this first post-Election attempt to devise a substitute for NRA was that the Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation is big, smooth, hairy-fisted Major George Leonard Berry, who is also longtime president of International Pressmen and Assistants Union...
...Businessmen have professed themselves more than eager to cooperate, but not under the supervision of a Labor leader. The biggest businessman Coordinator Berry could get to chairman his Management section was John G. Paine, Manhattan, who heads the Music Publishers' Protective Association. Perfectly willing to let NRA-substitute ideas simmer in more than one pot, President Roosevelt sent the Berry conference a noncommittal greeting, written before his South American trip, expressing the hope that their deliberations would "promote the stability of our whole national economy...