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When Senator Daniel Oren Hastings, Delaware Republican, stood up in the Senate last week and challenged "anybody" to say a good word for NRA, not a single Senator on either side of the aisle went to that organization's defense. Meanwhile courts in Missouri, New York and Wisconsin continued to pull more legal feathers from the Blue Eagle's already skimpy tail. In New Orleans Senator Borah's nephew, Judge Wayne Borah, refused to grant an injunction restraining a box company from alleged violation of the lumber code, pointedly added: "Personally, I believe the whole NIRA...
...Labor has been unalterably opposed to Samuel Clay Williams as NIRB Chairman since the day he succeeded NRAdministrator Hugh Johnson (TIME, Feb. 25). Because he believed that Mr. Williams had given employers the better of the bargain when he helped frame the preliminary cigaret code before he came to NRA, President Ira Milard Ornburn of the A. F. of L. cigar makers' union introduced a resolution at last autumn's Federation convention urging President Roosevelt to reconsider Mr. Williams' promotion. A "Dear Bill" letter from the White House to A. F. of L.'s President William...
Cigaret Maker Williams announced that he was quitting not only to return to "business connections that I regularly carry," but also to be free as a private citizen to answer any call to appear at the Finance Committee's NRA inquiry. These motives of Cigaret Maker Williams, Cigar Unionist Ornburn picked up and made the worst...
Richberg On Renewal. That the Finance Committee's NRA "investigation" was to be constructive rather than spectacular Chairman Harrison had already announced. First witness was Donald Richberg. As NRA's old general counsel, no one knew better than he through what legal pitfalls the organization had had to scramble in the past year and a half, what Constitutional hazards still lay ahead. Nevertheless, "the act should be extended substantially in its present form for two years," said he, producing the President's renewal request...
Having thus given the appearance of a man determined to stick by his guns, Mr. Richberg proceeded to lay down a 17-point program proposing amendments to limit NRA to "what can be legally accomplished." The Weirton decision had cast grave doubt on the NRA's legal power to regulate intrastate industrial affairs simply by spicing the law with the "commerce clause" of the Constitution. With an eye to avoiding a peck of court trouble, Mr. Richberg therefore announced: "Codification should be limited to those trades and industries actually engaged in interstate commerce...