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...your Representatives in Congress know how the loss of NRA will affect you and insist-demand-that everything left by the Court's decision be saved...
Hugh Johnson took to the microphone: "NRA is dead. The Blue Eagle is struck to earth. . . . The codes are as though they had not been written...
...minds any idea of wreckage of the New Deal. It is not wreckage. It is a temporary halt. Speaking of NRA alone-after a rough voyage on an unknown, unchartered and foggy sea, during which it tacked and veered and took many wrong courses (for much of which I was to blame)-the fog suddenly lifted and disclosed a blank wall of a seemingly impassable cliff-the decision in the Schechter case. The problem now is not to pick up its wreckage but to steer a course around that barrier...
Although Franklin Roosevelt told the world two days later that there was practically nothing left to save from the whole New Deal, nonetheless he began this week to take preliminary steps toward what looked like legislative action. He instructed Donald Richberg to maintain NRA's staff of 5,400 employes and not to serve notice that their jobs would terminate June 16. He called his Cabinet together, held another press conference, spent many more hours with Congressional leaders. Meanwhile the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Manufacturers Association were urging all businessmen not to cut wages...
...Decided that NRA codes were an unjustifiable delegation of legislative power, that the Federal Government's power to regulate commerce between the States does not include power to regulate practices which do not directly affect interstate commerce...