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Attending the conference were Attorney General Homer S. Cummings; Donald R. Richberg, chairman of the NRA; and Solicitor General Stanley Reed...
Washington, May 27--President Roosevelt went into conference tonight with New Deal legal experts to see what could be salvaged out of NRA...
...have Senators in this body who would filibuster for weeks against a two-year extension. They want to kill the NRA and would jump at the opportunity to delay action until after the date* on which the act automatically comes...
Even better evidence that NRA lay dying came from NRA itself. Donald Richberg gave 1,500 NRA men a pep talk to put down their growing feeling that they had better forget NRA and look for jobs elsewhere. But when Senators called him to account for calling them muddle-heads, he excused himself, saying he felt free to speak, since he himself was planning to quit NRA soon, about July 1. Nor was he alone in that. W. Averell Harriman, NRA Administrative officer, and Sol Rosenblatt, Director of Compliance & Enforcement, were both reported ready to leave on June 16. NRA...
...pointing. He never has. The most conspicuous thing about Mr. Weber and his company is secretiveness. He has never made a public speech, written a paper, submitted to an interview or posed for a photograph. His company has never joined either a trade association or a cartel or the NRA or a chamber of commerce. He had no bankers because he never needed them. The chemical industry is necessarily mysterious business but, with Allied's brilliant dictator, mystery was almost a fetish...