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...their support with the Chamber of Commerce's criticism, the President had given the impression that they were currying favor at the White House; 3) their opinions on the New Deal had not been properly explained, since, of several reports they had submitted, only one (approving continuation of NRA for two years) had been made public and others critical of the Utilities Holding Company Bill, the 30-hr. Week Bill, the Banking Bill, etc. had not seen the light...
...tycoon leaders from expressing their feelings-had finally ridden roughshod over those who counseled them to speak softly, had passed a set of resolutions bluntly objecting to the Administration's banking, utilities and social security bills as well as AAA and Franklin Roosevelt's plan for extending NRA for two years (see p. 63). Franklin Roosevelt had already snubbed them by sending no message to their meeting. To his newshawks he now cut loose, rubbed the nose of the Chamber of Commerce in the dust, made it the butt of many a biting quip. His chief points...
Last week President Roosevelt summoned Senate leaders to the White House, chided them hot-temperedly on the Senate's delay, reiterated his demand for a two-year extension of NRA. But he also declared, surprisingly, that he "could not" veto a ten month extension as proposed by Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark. The Senators marched back to the Capitol, where next day five of them joined other Finance Committee members in approving by 16-to-4 a redraft of the Clark resolution. In effect it offered an emasculated Blue Eagle less than ten months to flutter...
With this information, the Court closed its hearings, recessed while it studied the problem of reconciling NIRA with the Constitution. Expected was a decision before June 16, last day of NRA's present legal life...
...resolutions committee often rewritten on the floor, the Chamber declared its opposition to 1) the Social Security Bill. 2) the Public Utility Bill to abolish holding companies, 3) the section of the Banking Bill which proposes Government domination of the Federal Reserve System, 4) extension of the NRA except temporarily, 5) the AAA amendments (see p. 15), 6) all pending labor legislation. Only on such minor policies as transportation, reciprocal trade pacts, retirement of submarginal land and direct subsidies for shipping did the Chamber support the President. For good measure it tossed in a resolution demanding that any & all subversive...