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Growing, perhaps, a little tired of successive goodbys to Hugh Johnson, S. Clay Williams and Donald Richberg, the President last week bid farewell to James L. O'Neill, his fourth NRA head, who went back to his job as active vice president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. leaving unimportant NRA temporarily without a chief...
...last indefinitely, keep unwelcome bills at bay for weeks. Thus on the evening of May 13 the Senate by recessing instead of adjourning refused to tear off the top sheet of its pad, and the legislative day went gaily on. The Senate passed the Labor Relations Bill, gave NRA a shadow-lease on life, approved the TVAmendments, upheld the President's Bonus veto, heard Huey Long through a record one-man filibuster, extended nuisance taxes, passed the Social Security Bill, took a long week-end off over July 4, and adopted the AAAmendments...
...words. St. Paul gets 1,275; to Stalin's 400, Trotsky gets 650. Should Franklin Roosevelt be nettled to learn that his 800 words fall short of Herbert Hoover's 1,100, he can reflect that he plays the leading role in 850 words on NRA. Other counts: Theodore Roosevelt, 1,400; Wilson, 1,350; Lenin. 1,050; Mussolini, 850; Hitler, 750; Einstein, 400; Chaplin, 180; Tunney...
...President & Constitution. Smelling a deep plot to change the Constitution, many a Washington observer had by last week convinced himself that to President Roosevelt court curses on the New Deal are really blessings in disguise. Chief clues were the President's outburst after the Supreme Court's NRA decision, his letter three weeks ago urging passage of the Guffey Bill despite "doubt as to [its] constitutionality, however reasonable." From these, political detectives surmised that the President expects the Supreme Court, on the eve of next year's election, to throw out almost his whole program, whereupon...
...Most of them intend at some time to remarry their divorced husbands." Meanwhile lovesick teachers took heart from two straws in the wind: 1) In London the County Council agreed, after holding out for twelve years, to hire married women as teachers. 2) In Washington Dr. Caroline Ware, onetime NRA Consumers' Adviser, one-time associate professor of history at Vassar, prepared to sue the University of Wyoming for breach of contract. Grounds: Wyoming offered her a job in its summer school, reneged when it found she was married...