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...miniature, it was. Just two years ago the industrial researcher for Speculator Bernard Mannes Baruch had bellowed to newshawks that NRA was to be operated "in a goldfish bowl." Last week Hugh Johnson met Manhattan reporters with the promise that in disbursing New York City's share of the new four-billion-dollar work relief fund he wanted to "give it all a public airing." And he had been only a little more sanguine about taking over NRA and putting six million men to work by Labor Day than he was at becoming a Works Progress Director. At Washington, Newark...
...designated to supervise state Federal spending, the loyal General changed his tune, promised "no boon- doggling." Most of New York's municipal organization of 3,000 professional relievers General Johnson planned to retain. For his immediate official family he "borrowed" Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady, former NRA Assistant Administrator, to supervise labor relations. Also from the old NRA organization come most of the rest of his staff, including the ubiquitous "Robbie" who will act as office manager and probably will soon be recognized as second in command...
Works Progress Administrator Johnson had complained that he "lost between $30,000 and $35,000 on the NRA, and I don't know how much I'll lose on this job." To a friend who felicitated him on his appointment, he snapped: "Say, anyone who congratulates me on this job is crazy!" Why, then, had the General taken it? Washington gossips thought they knew the answer: the General, his appetite for public life whetted, hankers for a Cabinet post, thinks the President will recognize that one good turn deserves another. His term in New York expires Oct. 1. Significant...
...took ten months of humoring and hammering, persuasion and perseverance to get the U. S. copper industry to sign a code last year, but once having signed, coppermen became NRA's heartiest boosters. Just two years before they had been starving to death with copper at 4.7? per Ib. The code pegged the price at 9?. Early last year there was enough copper above ground to keep the U. S. supplied for 18 months with every mine closed. The code slapped severe restrictions on output and today the copper above ground would last only seven months. From the code...
...Register & Tribune is Republican, but not blindly so. It did not support Warren Hardins and it favors many a Democrat for State office. It defended Henry Wallace's AAA reduction program as a temporary measure, flayed NRA. It sponsored the League of Nations, World Court, low tariffs...