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...good right arm," performing the duties of Governor for long periods while Mr. Roosevelt was out of the State. Since 1933 he has been President Roosevelt's alter ego in New York, ramming through the State Legislature a mass of crime legislation, over 100 labor bills, a State NRA, higher taxes. Quiet and capable, Governor Lehman is tremendously popular with his 2,000,000 fellow-Jews in the State-a fact which partly explained President Roosevelt's desire to have him head the State Democratic ticket this autumn and thereby help win New York's much-needed...
...Guffey Act was to revive the NRA Coal Code. To do so it: 1) imposed a 15% tax on coal production but granted a rebate of all but one-tenth of the tax to producers who abided by the coal code; 2) directed that the code should stipulate minimum wages and hours of labor in the mines; 3) empowered the code to fix minimum and, in some cases, maximum prices for coal...
Said the Court: "The only perceptible difference between [the NRA Schechter] case and this is that in the Schechter case the Federal power was asserted with respect to commodities which had come to rest after their interstate transportation, while here, the case deals with commodities at rest before interstate commerce has begun. The difference is without significance...
...Guffey Coal Act is now as completely through as NRA and AAA. Further Federal attempts to regulate industry are seemingly doomed. A dark shadow of doubt is cast on the validity of the National Labor Disputes Act. There may be a serious coal strike this summer...
...time high of 8,304,000,000 cigars in 1920 to 4,344,700,000 in 1933. Even with the recent rise of the 5? cigar, production last year was only 4,763,900,000. The cigar men had gathered to hear Joseph Kolodny, onetime chairman of the NRA code authority for the wholesale tobacco trade, outline plans for saving the cigar. Apparently attached to New Deal terminology, Mr. Kolodny announced the founding of a promotional committee called the Cigar Progress Board, with himself as administrator...