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...late U. S. District Judge William I. Grubb of Birmingham, Ala. was regarded by lawyers who practiced before him as one of the fairest judges, one of the ablest authorities on law in the South. Judge Grubb propounded a series of decisions to the grave disadvantage of NRA and TVA. Last week his successor was appointed: David J. Davis, great & good friend and onetime law partner of Alabama's Senator Hugo La Fayette Black. Said the Birmingham bar when he was proposed for the job: "Courteous . . . considerate . . . efficient." As a faithful follower of New Dealer Black, Judge Davis...
Last September, President Roosevelt picked Major Berry to be Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation with the job of persuading businessmen to do voluntarily what they were forced to do under NRA. Ever since then Coordinator Berry has been working up a great conference of Industry and Labor, to begin in Washington this week, for the purpose of discussing ways of "accelerating industrial recovery, eliminating unemployment, maintaining business and labor standards...
Once a leading NRA lieutenant, Coordinator Berry talked himself blue in the face trying to take the Blue Eagle's curse off his conference. He promised that he would be the only Government representative on hand. He promised that he would raise no questions, make no suggestions. Conferees, he swore, would be free to do anything, decide anything they pleased. But up to last week's end Ford Motor Co. and the following trade associations had thumbed down Government-sponsored industrial co-operation by declining to send representatives to the Berry party...
...real purpose of the conference was to raise the Blue Eagle's ghost, put new flesh & feathers on it. Gist of each declination: "We are recovering nicely by ourselves. All we ask the Government to do is to leave us alone." Attributing objections to "a bad case of NRA jitters," Coordinator Berry announced on the party's eve that acceptances of his 5,200 invitations were running about 99% for Labor, 70% for Industry. Unemployment and taxation, he thought, would be the chief subjects of discussion. Coordinator Berry was primed for trouble when he stood up before...
...Clay Williams; Kodakman William G. Stuber; Soapman Richard R. Deupree: Woolman Lionel J. Noah; President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; President Ray Wantz of Rockford (Ill.) Fibre Container Co. About the only notable business figures absent were Brooklyn's poultry-dealing Brothers Schechter, who upset NRA, and that embattled Manhattan jeweler, Norman C. Norman, who carried his "Gold Clause" case to the Supreme Court...