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...survey announced that it made no attempt to evaluate NRA's reforms, had concentrated on the question of whether NRA had promoted recovery. Standard to judge recovery: Do citizens of the U. S. have more to eat, more to wear, etc.? Conclusions...
...with the exception of the late Eugene R. Black as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, President Roosevelt has lifted no Georgian to high place as Cabinet member, ambassador, brain-truster, first-rank administrator. His CWA and NRA nettled Georgians by boosting the price of their cheap labor. His AAA drained the tills of Georgia textile millers with the cotton processing tax. His FERA humiliated Georgia by adjudging its elected officials incompetent to administer relief, appointing a Federal representative in their stead. His PWA last week canceled four loans to Georgia, impugned the good faith of its Governor...
...condones the NRA, the AAA and other things now going on in this country is a radical in the extreme. The greatest calamity to this country is that President Roosevelt can't walk around and hunt up people to talk to. He can only talk to those his secretaries and assistants allow to come in to see him -and 99% of this crowd is the 'gimme' crowd...
This year's meetings of Associated Press and American Newspaper Publishers Association were bound to be an exception, due to at least three issues too hot to be disposed of entirely in private. One was the NRA newspaper code which expires June 15. Another was the question of letting down the bars against radio news broadcasting. Third and hottest of all was Wirephoto and John Francis Neylan...
...trade group like the potent National Retail Dry Goods Association, the National Association of Retail Druggists, the National Council of Shoe Retailers, the National Association of Music Merchants. It is not even possible to learn with any certainty the total of U. S. stores. Recalling his experience on the NRA Advisory Board, Merchant Kirstein, prime ARF mover, said last week: "Everybody went down to Washington and began writing codes for retailers to observe. There was no single authoritative group to speak for retailers generally, and they were outshouted in the proceedings which followed...